M.K. Mukherji, one of the earliest engineers to be selected by Vikram Sarabhai to launch the Indian space programme, passed away here on Wednesday. He was 85.
He breathed his last at Ramakrishna Ashram Charitable Hospital where he was a resident all through his life in the city from the 1960s.
A close associate of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Dr. Mukherji was the pioneer who created the metallurgy group at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram. His death was widely mourned by the Indian Space Research Organisation and Ashram communities.
