Bhubaneswar, May 27 -- Thirty meritorious students selected under the Tata Steel Young Astronomer Talent Search (YATS) programme today embarked on an educational tour to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, the premier launch facility of the Indian Space Research Organisation in Andhra Pradesh.
The four-day tour, scheduled from May 26 to May 29, was flagged off by Odisha Science and Technology Minister Krushna Chandra Patra at a special programme organised at Pathani Samanta Planetarium.
The students were selected from among more than 76,700 participants from across Odisha who took part in the 19th edition of YATS, jointly organised by Tata Steel in collaboration with the Pathani Samanta Planetarium under the state's Science and...