Isro's Mars Orbiter programme team wins US award

[Indo-guy]

Isro's Mars Orbiter programme team wins US award - The Times of India?


NEW DELHI: India's Mars Orbiter programme team has won the 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the science and engineering category from the US based National Space Society (NSS), the society said.
The NSS said in a statement that its 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the Science and Engineering category has been won by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Mars Orbiter Programme Team.
This award will be presented to an ISRO representative during the National Space Society's 2015 International Space Development Conference, the 34th ISDC, to be held in Toronto, Canada at a conference from May 20-24, 2015.
The mission was launched on Nov 5, 2013 and went into Mars orbit on Sept 24, 2014. This mission has achieved two significant mission firsts. (1) An Indian spacecraft has gone into orbit around Mars on the very first try (on Sept 24, 2014). No other country has ever done this. (2) The spacecraft is in an elliptical orbit with a high apoapsis, and has a high resolution camera which is taking full-disk color imagery of Mars. These images will aid planetary scientists.
The Mars Orbiter programme team located in Bangalore, India, is headed by Dr Mylswamy Annadurai.
The Space Pioneer Award consists of a silvery pewter Moon globe cast by the Baker Art Foundry in Placerville, California, from a sculpture originally created by Don Davis, the well-known space and astronomical artist.
The NSS is an independent non-profit educational membership organization dedicated to the creation of a space faring civilization.

 

[Levina]

Another feather in ISRO's cap.
Eagerly waiting to see our vyomnauts now.

 

[Aarush]

Another feather in ISRO's cap.
Eagerly waiting to see our vyomnauts now.

it would not be feather but whole bird in cap

 

[The enlightened]

Another feather in ISRO's cap.
Eagerly waiting to see our vyomnauts now.

vyomonauts...................
pfffffftttt..........
Such a stupid name. Is adding 'naut' neccessary. Can't we just call them some entirely sanskrit name or some hindi name....Antriksh Yatri or something

 

[The_magnificent]

Nice to know Mangalyaan is acknowledged internationally

 

[Nihil]

Isro's Mars Orbiter programme team wins US award - The Times of India?


NEW DELHI: India's Mars Orbiter programme team has won the 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the science and engineering category from the US based National Space Society (NSS), the society said.
The NSS said in a statement that its 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the Science and Engineering category has been won by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Mars Orbiter Programme Team.
This award will be presented to an ISRO representative during the National Space Society's 2015 International Space Development Conference, the 34th ISDC, to be held in Toronto, Canada at a conference from May 20-24, 2015.
The mission was launched on Nov 5, 2013 and went into Mars orbit on Sept 24, 2014. This mission has achieved two significant mission firsts. (1) An Indian spacecraft has gone into orbit around Mars on the very first try (on Sept 24, 2014). No other country has ever done this. (2) The spacecraft is in an elliptical orbit with a high apoapsis, and has a high resolution camera which is taking full-disk color imagery of Mars. These images will aid planetary scientists.
The Mars Orbiter programme team located in Bangalore, India, is headed by Dr Mylswamy Annadurai.
The Space Pioneer Award consists of a silvery pewter Moon globe cast by the Baker Art Foundry in Placerville, California, from a sculpture originally created by Don Davis, the well-known space and astronomical artist.
The NSS is an independent non-profit educational membership organization dedicated to the creation of a space faring civilization.

SpaceX may have won it, based on their public perception till mid-2014, but then it has had some well-publicized failures while the Mangalayan has been an unqualified success.

 

[Levina]

vyomonauts...................
pfffffftttt..........
Such a stupid name. Is adding 'naut' neccessary. Can't we just call them some entirely sanskrit name or some hindi name....Antriksh Yatri or something

right!!!
We can use that name.The "naut" part is actually from Greek which means "sailor" and we 're NOT greek so lets not speak greek.Right?
I prefer Vyomyatri or as you said Antrikshyatri.Though Vyomyatri would be easy to pronounce, around the world. As far as I know chinese also use terms like hángtiānyuán and yǔhángyuán, or was it taikonaut. @Chinese-Dragon pls help.

 

[Luca1]

Another feather in ISRO's cap.
Eagerly waiting to see our vyomnauts now.

Do you think that spaceX would send human to space before India?

 

[kurup]

Do you think that spaceX would send human to space before India?

Sorry we don't give a $hit .

 

[Luca1]

Sorry we don't give a $hit .

I think India should have a time line. Beating spaceX, a private company, to send a man to space would be a good goal.

 

[timetravel]

I think India should have a time line. Beating spaceX, a private company, to send a man to space would be a good goal.

US has already done it. When spaceX does is irrelevent to us.

The only thing I want is ISRO should do it asap.

 

[Levina]

Do you think that spaceX would send human to space before India?

we dont have a competition going on here nor is it cold war era.
Our vyomnaut will go in space by 2021 if all goes well.

 

[13 kumaon]

There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose. We do not have the fantasy of competing with the economically advanced nations in the exploration of the Moon or the planets or manned space-flight. But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society.

---- DR vikram sarabhai(father of indian space program)


Congrats to our scientists and isro to make a developing country India a emerging tech power.

Its time we honour our forgetting heroes with Bharat ratan.

 

[kurup]

I think India should have a time line. Beating spaceX, a private company, to send a man to space would be a good goal.

No need for any BS race with anybody ..... we will do it when we feels to do it .

 

[jamahir]

Do you think that spaceX would send human to space before India?

yes, spacex will send the first human maybe in 2017... their dragon v2 space capsule is ready, and additionally their falcon-r reusable rocket is being tested.

elon musk standing outside dragon v2...

the simplified interior... note the seven seats...

it cannot be predicted what the world will be like in 2021 but spacex will be a leader in space travel.