Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari, the only Indian-American among 18 Astronauts in NASA’s moon mission
Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari was selected in the 18 memeber astronauts team that will be a part of NASA's manned moon mission. He is the only Indian American among the astronauts.
Washington, 11/12: Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari, 43, a graduate of the US Air force Academy, MIT, US Naval Test Pilot School is among the 18 astronauts selected by NASA for its manned mission to the Moon and beyond. 9 among the 18 astronauts are women. The group of 18 astronauts will train for Artemis moon-landing programme.
Vice President Mike Pence said “My fellow Americans, I give you the heroes of the future who will carry us back to the Moon and beyond: the Artemis Generation,” at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Wednesday.
“It really is amazing to think that the next man and the first woman on the Moon are among the names that we just read…We started today reflecting on a great hero of the past. The Artemis Generation are the heroes of American space exploration in the future,” Pence said after he introduced the members of the Artemis Team during the eighth National Space Council meeting.
The agency’s modern lunar exploration programme will land the first woman and next man on the Moon in 2024 and establish a sustainable human lunar presence by the end of the decade, Nasa said.
