IIT Bombay Graduates to Help Build the World’s First Private Heavy Rocket Spaceport Outside the U.S.
In a scene more likely to be found in a futuristic novel than a boardroom in India, 16-year-old rocket engineer and the youngest-ever Japanese CEO, Issey Ryu Itahashi, sat face-to-face with the most powerful figures in Indian space exploration — and walked away with an opportunity to build a rocket manufacturing company as a sub-contractor to ISRO for the next decade on Indian soil.