Watch Space Odyssey -- India's Moon Mission Pioneer, Former ISRO Chief Dr K Kasturirangan dies at 84
Автор: Pallava Bagla
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Dr. K Kasturirangan, born on October 24, 1940, in Ernakulam, was a multifaceted personality who was a Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhuhan awardee, a former Member of Parliament, and someone who spearheaded the formulation of the New Education Policy 2020. An astrophysicist by training, he headed the Indian Space Research Organization for nearly a decade, and India's two main rockets became operational in his tenure.
As the head of ISRO, Dr Kasturirangan conceived India's maiden outing outside Earth orbit. It was under his leadership that Chandrayaan-1, then named Somayaan, was born.
The world first came to know of India's moon mission ambitions on May 11, 1999 when during the first National Technology Day talk soon after the famous Pokharan explosions of 1998, he slipped in a few slides on how the workhorse rocket the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) could be deployed to launch a modest orbital mission to the moon.
Finally, as per the timeline suggested by Dr Kasturirangan, India flew to the moon with Chandrayaan-1 on a sub-100-million-dollar mission in 2008. This mission and its global collaboration changed lunar history and geology once and for all, with the path-breaking discovery of the presence of water molecules on the moon's surface.
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