Saturday 3 January 2015

ISRO Charman Radhakrishnan Retires after a Glorious inning

The men who lead India to the Mars has hung his boots after a long stint of 42 years in the Indian Space Industry K Radhakrishnan retires as Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 31 December after having set many milestones including India’s successful mission to Mars last year.
The tenure of Mr Radhakrishnan as ISRO chief, Secretary, Department of Space and Chairman, Space Commission was extended by four months in August this year till December 31, 2014 on "functional grounds and in public interest."
Mr Radhakrishnan, a recipient of Padma- Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, was recently chosen as one of the top ten scientific personalities in 2014 by Nature Science Journal.
He joined Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in 1972 and rose through the ranks, in brisk space.
Mr Radhakrishnan was handpicked by Prof Satish Dhawan - the then Chairman of ISRO, to control and monitor the Budget and Economic Analysis activities at the ISRO headquarters.
He never looked back since then and the acme of his achievement was the "Mangalyaan" mission to the red planet.
India made space history on September 24 when its low-cost Mars spacecraft was successfully placed in orbit around the red planet in its very first attempt, breaking into an elite club of three nations.
The Rs 450-crore MOM Mangalyaan is the cheapest inter-planetary mission that, at just USD 74 million, costing less than the estimated USD 100 million budget of the sci-fi blockbuster "Gravity" and a tenth of NASA's Mars mission Maven, entered the Martian orbit on September 22.
European, American and Russian probes have managed to orbit or land on the planet, but after several attempts.
MOM feat gave a boost to India's global standing in space.
Mangalyaan was named among the best inventions of 2014 by TIME magazine which described it as a technological feat that will allow India to flex its "interplanetary muscles."
Sourcehttp://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/6342-isro-charman-radhakrishnan-retires-after-a-glorious-inning.html
Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/6342-isro-charman-radhakrishnan-retires-after-a-glorious-inning.html

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