Bhat
Bhat
Credit - www.spacefacts.de
Nagapathi Chidambar Bhat Indian Payload Specialist Astronaut. Born 1948.

Personal: Male. Born in North-Kanara, India. BS from Arts and Science College, Sirsi, 1970. BS in mechanical engineering from Engineering College Gulbarga, Karnatake University, 1970. MS in mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1972.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Payload Specialist. Inactive Entered space service: November 1985. Left space service: January 1986.

Chief, Department of Development, ISRO Satellite Center, Bangalore.

Bhat Chronology

1986 September - STS-61-I (cancelled). Assignment: Proposed Prime Crew. Flight: STS-61-I. Planned shuttle LDEF (Long Duration Exposure Facility) recovery mission. Cancelled after Challenger disaster.

Bibliography and Further Reading
  • Becker, Joachim, http://www.spacefacts.de/, "Space Facts Web Site", . Joachim Becker's outstanding collection of facts and photos of astronauts and cosmonauts. Accessed at: http://www.spacefacts.de/.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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