December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
.... Fourth, personnel costs were low. In the words of the director of the Houston-based Rice Space Institute, David Alexander, space engineers cost much less in India than they do in the US. Roddam Narasimha, a leading Indian aerospace scientist...
12 October 2016
‘Asgardia’ to become the first new Space Nation
... Space Agency, ESA) have independently launched satellites on their own indigenously developed launch vehicles. Professor David Alexander, Director of the Rice Space Institute at Rice University, Houston, Texas said: “As low-earth orbit becomes...
