India-born engineer has key role in Nasa Artemis mission
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India-born engineer has key role in Nasa Artemis mission
Priyanka A Chokhani / TNN / Updated: Jun 6, 2021, 04:11 IST
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MELBOURNE: As the first leg of Artemis, Nasa’s ambitious project to send a spacecraft into deep space, begins, overseeing the rocket’s core stage, or its backbone, will be Coimbatore-born Subashini Iyer.
“It has been nearly 50 years since we last stepped on the moon … We are getting ready to take humans back to the moon and beyond, to Mars,” Iyer told TOI.
Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight of the spacecraft Orion, the first of three complex missions for exploration on the moon and Mars. Orion will travel 280,000 miles (over 4,50,000 km) from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the moon in a three-week mission.