Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tooting horn
I was happy to hear about India's successful moon rocket launch attempt. I must say that I consider myself lucky to have designed minor portions of that rocket when I worked as an engineer for the Indian Space Research Organization ten years ago and it sure was heartening to hear this news today. The mission seems to have a couple of stated objectives - firstly, to create a three dimensional surface topology map of the moon and secondly to find and map uranium/thorium deposits under the lunar surface... The former makes perfect sense, the latter none.
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Very cool, Sunil. I had no idea you did these things!
My father was an engineer; among other things, he designed the guidance system on the Redstone rocket, and also created some of the earliest countdowns--even coming up with "3-2-1 blast off!"
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