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Science & Technology Web Extras - People K. Radhakrishnan is new head of ISRO, Space Dept Our Bureau Bangalore, Oct. 31 Dr K. Radhakrishnan, Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), on Saturday took charge as the new Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He also automatically becomes Secretary to the Department of Space, and Chairman of the Space Commission, reporting directly to the Prime Minister. He succeeds Dr G. Madhavan Nair, who steered the space agency from September 2003 with mission and commercial successes, presided over the country's successful Moon orbiter mission, and who is credited with giving the second vision for the country's space programme. Dr Radhakrishnan, 60, an electrical engineer from Kerala University, Ph.D from IIT-Kharagpur, and an MBA from IIM-B, joined VSSC in 1971 as an avionics engineer and went on to hold several key positions in the organisation, an ISRO release here said. During his tenure, the 4,500-strong VSSC - ISRO's rocket-making centre - put out the spectacular PSLV launcher that carried the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft to the Moon last November. The centre made five successful launches of the PSLV during this period. As Director of the NRSA during 2005-08, Dr Radhakrishnan turned the agency into the nerve centre of ISRO's Disaster Management Support Programme; the agency gives 24x7 decision support with space-based inputs to State and Central Government agencies in times of disasters. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, Indian Society of Remote Sensing Systems Society of India, Indian Geophysical Union, member of the International Academy of Astronautics and the Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences and authored 55 publications. He had a short stint in the newly-created Ministry of Earth Sciences during 2000-05 as the founder-director of Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services and was the first Project Director of Indian National Tsunami Warning System. Madhavan Nair The outgoing Chairman, Dr G. Madhavan Nair, who presided over 25 successful launch vehicles and satellite missions, has been called the chairman with the golden touch at ISRO. His six years as at ISRO's helm were crowned with the lunar mission that put the Indian flag on Moon. In October, he became the first Indian President of the prestigious International Academy of Astronautics, Paris. During his time, ISRO launched two major multi-satellite missions on the PSLV, bagged 18 launch customers and at least two European orders to build two-tonne satellites W2M and Hylas.
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