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Technology / Fri, 05 Jun 2026 BBC

Isro: Indian space scientist Nandini Harinath's Mars mission sari at US's Smithsonian museum

"It was a do-or-die moment, the most critical operation in the mission," Nandini told me when I interviewed her in 2016. "We had to decide where the spacecraft goes, how it goes and when it goes. The success of the mission depended on what we did that day."

"It was a do-or-die moment, the most critical operation in the mission," Nandini told me when I interviewed her in 2016. "We had to decide where the spacecraft goes, how it goes and when it goes. The success of the mission depended on what we did that day."

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