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Sunday, May 21, 2017

In tribute to APJ Abdul Kalam, NASA names new species after him

The late APJ Abdul Kalam had his early training at NASA in 1963 before he set up India's first rocket-launching facility in the fishing village of Thumba in Kerala.


LOS ANGELES: In great news for India, scientists at NASA have named a new organism discovered by them after the much-loved APJ Abdul Kalam. 

Till date, the new organism - a form of a bacteria - has been found only on the International Space Station (ISS) and has not been found on earth! 

Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the foremost lab of NASA for work on inter-planetary travel, discovered the new bacteria on the filters of the International Space Station (ISS) and named it Solibacillus kalamii to honour the late president, who was a renowned aerospace scientist. 


Kalam had his early training at NASA in 1963 before he set up India's first rocket-launching facility in the fishing village of Thumba in Kerala. 


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