Vr Lalithambika

V R Lalithambika, former Director, Directorate of the Human Spaceflight Programme, ISRO, was conferred the top French honour of the Legion of Honour for her engagement in space cooperation between France and India.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India's first human space flights mission on a rocket built by ISRO on Independence Day last week, a widely-appreciated clause was his promise that it could be a "son or a daughter" who would take the Indian flag to outer space. At the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO, a part of PM Modi's promis...

V R Lalithambika, former Director, Directorate of the Human Spaceflight Programme, ISRO, was conferred the top French honour of the Legion of Honour for her engagement in space cooperation between France and India.

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India's first human space flights mission on a rocket built by ISRO on Independence Day last week, a widely-appreciated clause was his promise that it could be a "son or a daughter" who would take the Indian flag to outer space. At the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO, a part of PM Modi's promis...