More skeletons come tumbling out of ISRO cupboard

New Delhi, July 8 There seems to be no end of skeletons tumbling out of ISRO's cupboard – which makes one wonder where India's space programme would have reached by now had merit and not personal proclivities been the order of the day.

In the latest series of broadsides, Dr Abraham E. Muthunayagam, considered the chief architect of rocket propulsion in India and the developer of an indigenous cryogenic engine, who left behind a lucrative career with NASA, has charged a former ISRO chairman of blocking his way to the top that resulted in his decision to quit the space agency.

Muthunayagam also says that the Nambinarayanan episode "could have been solved in the initial stages" had the then Secretary to the Department of Space

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