NASA's New Horizons probe being navigated by Mumbai-born scientist
Mumbai-born Shyamkumar Bhaskaran is playing a key role in steering NASA's New Horizons space probe, which recently conducted a flyby of the most distant cosmic object ever explored, Ultima Thule. Bhaskaran is the Outer Planet Navigation Group's Supervisor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We've never done such an encounter of an object which was unknown, small and dark," Bhaskaran said.