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Indian American astronaut raja chari

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Raja chari Cape Canaveral (USA): SpaceX has sent four astronauts to the International Space Station. 44-year-old Indian American Raja Chari has been made mission commander for this mission. He is a trained pilot of a US Air Force fighter jet. The other three members are Kayla Barron, 34, Tom Marshburn and Matthias Maurer. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that among the four people who left for space on Wednesday, Germany's Matthias Maurer, who has been described as the 600th person to go to space. He and the other three NASA astronauts should reach the space station within 24 hours. The vehicle had returned due to bad weather After a long delay due to various reasons including bad weather, the SpaceX rocket finally took off with these astronauts on Wednesday. Two days ago, SpaceX returned from the spacecraft with four other astronauts back to Earth. Due to bad weather, there was a long delay in take-off of the rocket. Four astronauts said goodbye ...

nambi narayanan biography and ISRO spy case

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  Nambi Narayanan Nambi Narayanan S. Nambi Narayanan (12 December 1941) is an Indian scientist and aerospace engineer and Padma Bhushan award winner . As a senior scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation ( ISRO ), he was in charge of the cryogenics department. In 1994, he was falsely charged with espionage and arrested. The charges against him were dismissed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in April 1996, and the Supreme Court of India declared him not guilty in 1998. In 2018, the Supreme Court, through the bench of Dipak Misra, awarded Narayanan a compensation of ₹ 5,000,000, to be recovered from the government of Kerala within eight weeks. However, the government of Kerala decided to give him ₹ 1.3 crores (₹ 13,000,000; ). The apex court also constituted a committee headed by retired Supreme Court judge D. K. Jain to inquire into the role of officials of the Kerala police in the arrest of Narayanan. He was awarded India's third highest civilian award, the...