Kalam conferred with Braun Memorial Award

New Delhi (PTI): Former president A P J Abdul Kalam was conferred with US-based National Space Society's (NSS) Wernher von Braun Memorial Award in San Diego. The award instituted by NSS was conferred on Kalam at the International Space Development Conference last evening. The honour is given to recognise excellence in management and leadership in a space-related project, where the project is significant and successful and the manager commands the loyalty of a strong team that he has created. At the conference, Kalam spoke about space-based solar power, which is attracting attention as a potential major global energy and electricity source. He suggested the creation of the World Space Knowledge platform with a virtual laboratory for space industrialisation by US and India in collaboration with other spacefaring nations.