Shanmuga Subramanian (Shan) is credited by NASA for discovering a spacecraft wreckage on the moon. He did this from his cozy home in Chennai India. Scroll down to the interview and hear how this software engineer achieved this feat.
Other Resources about Shan
- You can contact Shan via Twitter: @Ramanean
- This is Shan’s homepage: https://www.ramanean.com
- Shan was interviewed by the New York Times: NASA Finds India’s Vikram Moon Lander Crash Site, With Amateur’s Help
- Shan’s second New York Times article: A Billion Pixels and the Search for India’s Crashed Moon Lander
Curious about why the moon’s south pole is a big deal? Here is a wikipedia article.
Listen to Shan tell his story in these short Episodes:
- 252 DevOps Engineer by Day, Real Life Discoverer of Lost Lunar Lander by Night—Shanmuga
- 253 How a Software Engineer gets the Keys to the City and the State
- 254 How Discovering Moon Debris made a Software Engineer Famous
- 255 Tips from a Lunar Explorer on how you can be one too