Amit Kshatriya, a decorated Indian-American software and robotics engineer was appointed as the first head of NASA’s newly-established Moon to Mars Programme that will help the agency ensure a long-term lunar presence needed to prepare for humanity’s next giant leap to the Red Planet.
Kshatriya will serve as NASA’s first head of the office, with immediate effect, the agency announced on Thursday.
The new office aims to carry out the agency’s…