India-born Subashini Iyer has been overseeing the rocket core stage of Nasa's ambitious project to send a spacecraft to the moon and beyond.
India-born Subashini Iyer has been overseeing the rocket core stage of Nasa's ambitious project to send a spacecraft to the moon and beyond. Subashini Iyer is Coimbatore-born and has been associated with Space Launch System (SLS) for the past two years.
"It has been nearly 50 years since we last stepped on the moon We are getting ready to take humans back to the moon and beyond, to Mars," Subashini Iyer told ToI.
"My role involves overseeing any support that Nasa needs once the core stage is built and handed over to Nasa," Subashini Iyer said.
Nasa's Artemis lunar exploration program uses innovative new technologies and systems to explore more of the Moon. NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will send astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft nearly a quarter million miles from Earth to lunar orbit.
Nasa will fly two missions around the Moon to test its deep space exploration systems.
Artemis I is an uncrewed flight to test the SLS and Orion spacecraft together, followed by the Artemis II mission, the first SLS and Orion test flight with crew. NASA will land astronauts on the Moon by 2024 on the Artemis III mission and about once a year thereafter.
According to the report, Subashini Iyer was one of the first women to graduate in mechanical engineering in her college in 1992.
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