S. Srinivasan

Suryanarayanan Srinivasan (14 April 1941 – 1 September 1999) was an Indian aeronautical engineer and the Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), known for his pioneering work in rocket science. He also served as the director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre and assisted A. P. J. Abdul Kalam in the SLV3 Mission as its deputy director. He was an elected Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2000, for his contributions to Indian space program.

Biography Srinivasan was born on 14 April 1941 in a small village called Asikkadu in Mayiladuthurai district in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He was a member of the National Steering Committee of the 21st (1997) and the 23rd National Systems Conference (NSC) (1999) and a member of the National Advisory Council of the 13th National Convention of Aerospace Engineers held in 1997. He was an honorary Fellow of the Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing and was associated with the Thiruvananthapuram Chapter of the Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (ISAMPE) A recipient of the National Aeronautics Prize and the FIE Foundation National award,