Indian-Americans taking over US, says Biden at Nasa meet
PTI/Washington Filed on March 6, 2021 | Last updated on March 6, 2021 at 06.36 am
Dr Swati Mohan, who played a pivotal role in the successful landing of Perseverance rover on Mars, thanked the US President for speaking to the Nasa team.
Indian-American aerospace engineer Dr Swati Mohan, who played a pivotal role in the successful landing of Nasa s Perseverance rover on Mars, has told US President Joe Biden that her path to the premier US space agency began when she watched the first episode of Star Trek as a child.
Dr Mohan is the guidance and controls operations lead for the Perseverance rover mission, acting as the eyes and ears for Nasa s most sophisticated spacecraft to date.
Biden lauds the NASA team at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including Dr Swati Mohan, the Indian-American aerospace engineer, who was one of the many people who spearheaded the development and the landing system for the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars earlier this month
Indian-American aerospace engineer Dr Swati Mohan, who played a pivotal role in the successful landing of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars, has told US President Joe Biden that her path to the premier US space agency began when she watched the first episode of Star Trek as a child.
Meet Dr Swati Mohan, Indian-American scientist who played key role in NASA s Perseverance landing
Dr Swati Mohan was the first to confirm that the rover had successfully touched down on the Martian surface after surviving a particularly tricky plunge through the atmosphere of the Red Planet
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Dr Swati completed her bachelor s degree from Cornell University and her MS and PhD from MIT
When NASA s rover, Perseverance, gently landed on the surface of Mars last week after seven months in space, millions of miles away in the US space agency s control room, a woman s voice rang out: Touchdown confirmed! The announcement was from Indian American scientist Dr Swati Mohan the woman who played a pivotal role in the landing of the historic craft.