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The Man Behind NASAâs Wright Brothers Moment On Mars Is IIT-Madras Alumnus Bob Balaram
by Bhaswati Guha Majumder - Apr 21, 2021 06:28 AM
J. Bob Balaram
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Since his childhood, he was fascinated by rockets and the interest in space grew more than ever when he heard about the Apollo Moon mission on the radio.
History was created on 19 April when NASAâs âIngenuityâ helicopter took a flight above the dust surface on Mars, making it the first powered flight on another planet.
While the flight success on Mars â NASA s Wright Brothers Moment âturned into one of the most popular topics on social media platforms, an Indian-origin engineerâs name also came under the spotlight who had this idea of flying on the Red Planet for years.
IIT-Madras alumnus Bob Balaram, the man behind Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter s historic flight
Indian-origin engineer Bob Balaram is the man behind Mars Ingenuity helicopter, who has worked with Nasa for 20 years.
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Bob Balaram (right) has been working with Nasa for 20 years.
Nasa s ambitious miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity took flight above the dusty surface of Mars on Monday, making it the first powered flight on another planet. Significantly, Indian-origin engineer Bob Balaram is the man behind Ingenuity. He has worked with Nasa for 20 years.
Ingenuity Mars helicopter is the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft over the surface of another planet. With this,
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Spaceflight Insider
Nicholas D Alessandro
April 15th, 2021
The second flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket. Astrobotic has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to fly its Griffin lander, which will be carrying NASA’s VIPER rover, to the Moon. Credit: Michael McCabe / SpaceFlight Insider
Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based company specializing in commercial lunar freight landers, announced it has selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch its Griffin medium-class lander to the Moon in 2023, carrying NASA’s VIPER lunar rover.
VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, is a NASA mission to explore permanently-shadowed craters at the lunar south pole region to determine if frozen water deposits exist there and that they can support future crewed missions and colonies on the Moon.