Chandrayaan and what it means for India's brain drain

Published: Dec. 14, 2023, noon

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In August the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft touched down, making India only the fourth to have successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon. In this special episode of the Working Scientist podcast, Somak Raychaudhuryan astrophysicist and vice-chancellor at Ashoka University, tells Jack Leeming about India\\u2019s history of space research, the significance of the lunar landing, and how it might help to stem a \\u201cbrain drain\\u201d of Indian researchers moving abroad permanently to develop their careers. 


The episode is part of the Nature Spotlight on India, an editorially-independent supplement.



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