More than 110 vocalists and instrumentalists participated in the day-long second annual Rocky Mountain Thyagaraja Utsavam held at the at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Castle Rock, south of Denver, Colorado.
On Sunday morning Eastern US time, four astronauts will zoom into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Commanding the spaceflight is Raja Chari, a United States Air Force colonel.
Raja Chari is in training to go to space in 2019. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel presents the story of his journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to NASA. A Rediff.com Exclusive!
