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India-born engineer Subashini Iyer oversees backbone of Nasa's mission to Moon and beyond

India-born Subashini Iyer has been overseeing the rocket core stage of Nasa's ambitious project to send a spacecraft to the moon and beyond. Subashini Iyer is Coimbatore-born and has been associated with Space Launch System (SLS) for the past two years.

"It has been nearly 50 years since we last stepped on the moon We are getting ready to to take humans back to the moon and beyond, to Mars" Subashini Iyer told ToI.