Telangana Today to dock into Space Station with astronaut Raja Chari

Hyderabad: The Commander of NASA SpaceX Crew-3 Mission, Astronaut Raja Chari, who is currently docked at the International Space Station, will be sitting down for an exclusive interview on Friday with Telangana Today senior  correspondent Namrata Srivastava.

The programme will be live telecast on NASA TV on January 28, 10:10 pm IST.

An Indian American, who grew up Iowan, in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk county, on the banks of the Cedar river, Raja’s father Sreenivas V Chari hailed from Hyderabad. His mother Peggy, a nurse and later a teacher, is American.

Raja Chari is also the first to graduate from NASA’s Artemis programme, making him eligible for assignments to future lunar missions. Under the programme, NASA wants to send the next man and first woman to the Moon by 2024.

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Watch: Exclusive interview with NASA astronaut Raja Chari

 

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