For
someone who steers the country's premier scientific institution, Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) head Koppili Radhakrishnan, 64, is a
deeply religious man. None of his major missions kick off without a
visit to temples at Guruvayur or Tirumala. Radhakrishnan was the man
behind the Mars Orbiter Mission or Mangalyaan, India's most audacious
exploration into space which took off on November 5. A mere 22 of the 52
Mars-bound missions have succeeded so far. Come September 2014 and
ISRO, if it pulls off the mission, will join an exclusive club of three
agencies that have gone that far-European Space Agency, Russian Space
Agency and NASA. Radhakrishnan has his punchline ready: "We'll tell the
world India's frugal engineering is the most cost-efficient and
successful-from automobiles to space."
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