Astrophysicist and university vice-chancellor Somak Raychaudhury outlines the significance of the country’s space programme

The Chandrayaan lunar landing and how it could impact India’s brain drain

Astrophysicist and university vice-chancellor Somak Raychaudhury outlines the significance of the country’s space programme

Somak Raychaudhury discusses India's brain drain and achievements in space science.

In August, the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft touched down, making India only the fourth country to have successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon. In this Working Scientist podcast, Somak Raychaudhury, astrophysicist and vice-chancellor at Ashoka University, India, tells Jack Leeming about India’s history of space research, the significance of the lunar landing, and how it might help to stem a “brain drain” of Indian researchers moving abroad permanently to develop their careers.

The episode is part of the Nature Spotlight on India, an editorially-independent supplement.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03897-4

This story originally appeared on: Nature - Author:Jack Leeming