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Rahul Narayan is a dreamer.
As a child, he loved watching Carl Sagan’s TV series, Cosmos. Later, it was Star Trek. Finally, Star Wars, the show that was avidly followed by an entire generation of space enthusiasts.
If you have seen an episode of Star Trek, you will remember Captain James Kirk’s mission for the Starship Enterprise:
Space, the final frontier … To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
The cast of Star Trek had Montgomery Scott as chief engineer. Scotty, with his quaint Scottish accent, was constantly getting everyone out of trouble. Once, after out-drinking an alien intruder, he had to repair the Enterprise while drunk.
Remember Captain Kirk’s catchphrase, “Beam me up, Scotty”, when he wanted to be teleported back to the Enterprise?
Those were the 1980s.
Rahul realised that while dreaming of space and extraterrestrial life might keep him awake at night, it could not become a career. So he studied computer science. Later, after settling into a job, Rahul’s dream of adventures in outer space never really went away.
Once, while remotely sharing a desktop with a client in the US, he noticed a poster in the background. It was an announcement of the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) for space...