{"id":11612,"date":"2016-05-18T12:51:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T12:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=11612"},"modified":"2016-05-18T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T12:51:17","slug":"u-r-rao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/u-r-rao\/","title":{"rendered":"U.R Rao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Question: Recently who has become the first Indian to be selected for &#8216;International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Hall of Fame&#8217; award for 2016?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) U. R Rao<br \/>\n(b) C.N.R Rao<br \/>\n(c) Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan<br \/>\n(d) Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:(a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>On 14 May 2016 Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman, Scientist and Professor Udupi Ramachandra Rao, popularly known as U. R. Rao has been selected for the &#8216;International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Hall of Fame&#8217; award for 2016.<\/li>\n<li>With this he became the first Indian to be inducted with the &#8216;International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Hall of Fame&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>He has been selected for his outstanding contribution to the development of astronautics within the framework of the IAF activities.<\/li>\n<li>The IAF Hall of Fame consists of a permanent gallery of these personalities, including a citation, biographical information, and a picture, in a special part of the IAF web presence.<\/li>\n<li>He will be awarded at \u201c67th International Astronautical Congress\u201d in Guadalajara, Mexico on 30 September, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>From 1984 to 1994 he had worked as Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).<\/li>\n<li>He was awarded with Padma Bhushan in 1976.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier he was inducted into the Satellite Hall of Fame at Washington on 19 March 2013<\/li>\n<li>The International Astronautical Federation is an international space advocacy organisation based in Paris.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/update\/14-may-2016\/prof-u-r-rao-selected-to-receive-2016-iaf-hall-of-fame-award\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.isro.gov.in\/update\/14-may-2016\/prof-u-r-rao-selected-to-receive-2016-iaf-hall-of-fame-award<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bengaluru\/UR-Rao-becomes-1st-Indian-in-IAF-Hall-of-Fame\/articleshow\/52256741.cms\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/bengaluru\/UR-Rao-becomes-1st-Indian-in-IAF-Hall-of-Fame\/articleshow\/52256741.cms<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ddinews.gov.in\/Sci-Tech\/Sci-Tech%20-%20Headlines\/Pages\/URRaotogetHallOfFameAward.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ddinews.gov.in\/Sci-Tech\/Sci-Tech%20-%20Headlines\/Pages\/URRaotogetHallOfFameAward.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently who has become the first Indian to be selected for &#8216;International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Hall of Fame&#8217; award for 2016? 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R Rao (b) C.N.R Rao (c) Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (d) Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar Ans:(a) Related facts: On 14 May 2016 Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman, Scientist and Professor Udupi Ramachandra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2336],"class_list":["post-11612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}