US keen on buying space tech from India: Somanath
Deccan ChronicleRameswaram: Isro Chairman S. Somanath on Sunday said that space experts from NASA of the United States, after witnessing the work of Indian space scientists on the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, suggested that India sell its space technology “In Chandrayaan-3, when we designed and developed the spacecraft, we invited experts from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA,” he told an event organized to commemorate the 92nd birth anniversary of late former President Dr A.P.J. “These experts had worked on all the rockets and most difficult missions.” “About five-six people from NASA-JPL came and we explained to them about Chandrayaan-3. and how we are going to land on the Moon’s surface, and they just said, no comments… everything is going to be good.” “They also said one thing, ’look at the scientific instruments, they are very cheap. Somanath said, “Times have changed and India is capable of building the best of devices and rockets and that is why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened the space sector to private players.” Appealing to the young audience at the venue to follow the ideology of Dr Kalam, Somanath said the most powerful tool is to dream and “Kalam sir told you that you should dream when you are awake and not in the night.”