New Delhi, April 11 -- From admiring rocket launches as a child in Houston to steering the operations behind them at NASA, Indian-American scientist Amit Kshatriya's journey has been nothing short of 'to the moon and back.'

As NASA's Associate Administrator, Amit Kshatriya serves as the highest-ranking civil servant at the agency and as a senior advisor to Administrator Jared Isaacman.

He leads the space agency's 10 centre directors, as well as the mission directorate associate administrators at NASA Headquarters in Washington. He also acts as the agency's Chief Operating Officer.

Speaking at the Artemis II press conference on Saturday - Amit Kshatriya praised not only the astronauts but their loved ones and all the people who built th...