From bhowmick.sabyasachi89 at gmail.com Mon Oct 26 10:39:14 2009 From: bhowmick.sabyasachi89 at gmail.com (Sabyasachi Bhowmick) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:09:14 +0530 Subject: [SEDS-Earth] New chairman for ISRO Message-ID: <3e0510a80910261039o52e8a811p105df4d9e1ec16a4@mail.gmail.com> hello everyone The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will see a change at the helm. The director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Dr. K Radhakrishnan has been appointed as the new chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Bangalore. His appointment was announced on Saturday, October 24. Radhakrishnan will take over the charge on October 31, replacing the former chairperson G Madhavan Nair. Radhakrishnan, who joined the ISRO in 1971 as an avionics engineer, played a ?key role? in the Chandrayaan-I moon mission. Radhakrishnan has also served as the director of the National Remote Sensing Agency. He was also the founder director of the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) and national mission director for the Integrated Mission for Sustainable Development. We wish him luck for the future and are sure that ISRO will achieve milestones under his guidance. Sabyasachi Bhowmick President SEDS India -- Sabyasachi Bhowmick Undergraduate Student (Civil Engineering) Vellore Institute of Technology Ph: +91- 99522 82570 email: bhowmick.sabyasachi89 at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://seds.org/pipermail/seds-earth/attachments/20091026/c5047331/attachment.html