SAKEC Robo Club promoted the Online Lockdown Interaction on SpaceX Maiden Astronaut Flight by Dr. Anita Sengupta, organized by Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai on Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 9.30 AM. About 80 students and faculty members have attended the event.
Dr. Anita Sengupta is a rocket scientist and aerospace engineer who for over 20 years has been developing technologies that have enabled the exploration of Mars, Asteroids, and Deep Space.
Dr. A. P. Jayaraman, Nuclear Scientist (1964-2004), President – STEAM Academy, Chairman – NCSC Mumbai along with Shivaprasad M. Khened, Director Nehru Science Centre Mumbai, Former Director NGMA, Mumbai, National Science Centre, Delhi, Visvesvaraya Museum, Bangalore had interacted with Dr. Anita in the lecture.
Dr. Anita Sengupta explained the NASA-SpaceX Demo-2 mission ‘Launch America’ to send two astronauts — Col. Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken — into space, aboard a spacecraft developed by SpaceX. This is the first time a private space company will be achieving such a feat. She also talked on Parachutes for reentering into Earth atmosphere, private player role in Engineering and designing of space related activities, expressed her thoughts on space debris cleaning solutions, discussed her view on future of urban transportation by joint venture of space sector, Electrical propulsion systems of space, also answered questions of the audience like SpaceX – ISRO collaborations, Rover drilling machine on moon, what subjects are important to become astronaut, Indian human launch mission. One person ‘ASK’ed her message to Indian girls. (ASK – ‘A’ – Anita Sengupta, ‘S’ – Sunita Williams and ‘K’ – Kalpana Chawla), questions also included about failures in engineering – especially in space technology, whether she expect human on Mars by 2030.
In the concluding remark Dr. Anita Sengupta gave the message that, for successful carrier in engineering field every engineering student must have Problem Solving mindset or mentality.
