A real life Lunar Explorer
Shanmuga Subramanian (Shan) is credited by NASA for discovering a spacecraft wreckage on the moon. And he did this from his cozy home in Chennai India. Scroll down to the interview and hear how this software engineer achieved this feat.
Other Resources about Shan
- You can contact Shan via Twitter: @Ramanean
- This is Shan’s homepage: https://www.ramanean.com
- Shan was interviewed by the New York Times: NASA Finds India’s Vikram Moon Lander Crash Site, With Amateur’s Help
- Shan’s second New York Times article: A Billion Pixels and the Search for India’s Crashed Moon Lander
Curious about why the moon’s south pole is a big deal? Here is a wikipedia article.
