Physicist Chandrasekhar helped lay foundation of NASA solar probe
Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's intervention helped a research paper on 'solar winds' get published 60 years ago, the basis of NASA's first mission to 'touch' the Sun. The 1958 paper by Eugene Newman Parker was backed by Chandrasekhar when scientific community refused to believe it. Popularly known as 'Chandra', NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is named after him.