R. Aravamudan

R. Aravamudan is a veteran space scientist and engineer from India. He was chosen for the Indian space programme by Vikram Sarabhai in 1962.
Early life.
Ramabhadran Aravamudan, an electronics engineer from Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, started his career at Department of Atomic Energy, Trombay's Reactor Control Division. In 1962, he quit his job at DAE and moved to Trivandrum to work with Sarabhai.
Career.
After moving to Trivandrum to be part of India's space programme, in December 1962, Aravamudan was trained at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on assembling and launching small rockets for collecting scientific data.
In the early 1970s, he served as the Director of Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. In the 1980s, he became the Associate Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC). In 1989, he took over as the Director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR and in 1994, he moved to Bangalore as the Director of U R Rao Satellite Centre.