Bangalore, Jan 04: Bringing out the scientist in him,
President A P J Abdul Kalam would address the space summit
today at the ongoing Indian Science Congress here in a
change of his earlier plan to interact with the space
scientists through video-conferencing.
Himself associated with key Indian space programmes,
Kalam would fly down here exclusively to devote two hours to
address the 90th summit and interact with children after which
he would return to New Delhi.
An announcement at the Congress said as an outcome of the
space summit, it is planned to bring out a report and also a
publication "Space Vision-2025", a collection of papers
presented by various experts.
Space agency chiefs of prominent nations, officials from
the UN and some leading private space industry chiefs are
likely to participate in the summit.
Bureau Report
