From this part of the world comes a competition to Virgin Galactic’s enterprise on space tourism, as the student team from SRM University, which recently won the space transportation design competition of
Amercian Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is confident of sending 1,000 people to explore the space by 2025.
After winning an award for the eco-friendly aircraft design at NASA Green Aviation competition last year, again the SRM team has bagged the third position at Undergraduate Space Transportation Design Competition 2011-2012 organized by AIAA.
The SRM University Aerospace Design Team calls their transportation vehicle by a Sanskrit name NAVSHITIZ VAHAK— The Carrier Of New Horizon. This big dream is propelled by a eight-member team led by final-year student Pate Sweety Prakash and her teammates: Joel Alex Roy, Anku Aravind, Rajdeep Chowdhuri, Sarnavi Mahesh, Jeevraj Hejmady, Ravi Shakya, Rishabh Bana, all from final year and pre-final year of Aerospace Engineering. Sarnavi Mahesh, one of the team members, said, “This design competition required us to present an innovative design and also a commercial business plan for the Earth- to orbit passenger vehicle.”
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