Recognition
In the year 2004, Space News weekly ranked Prof U R Rao among the top ten international personalities who have made a difference in civil, commerce and military space in the world since 1989. He won the Theodore Von Karman Award for 2005 presented by The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).
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