1.7 lakh Indians' names on NASA's Orion crew module

December 21, 2014 12:16

As India celebrated its success in testing an unmanned space crew module on Thursday, over 1.7 lakh Indians had another reason to be happy as a similar NASA spacecraft carrying a microchip containing their names was brought back safely to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US, on the same day after a space odyssey.

According to the NASA, a total of 1,78,144 space enthusiasts from India had their names recorded on the dime-sized microchip on board NASA's unmanned Orion crew module spacecraft, which was launched into space on December 4.

India stood second in the number of people sending their names after the US, which topped the list with 4,63,669 entries. United Kingdom (1,12,073), Mexico (51,505) and The Philippines (39,991) were in the top five.

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