NASA have named a new Organism discovered by them in the honour of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam as “Solibacillus kalamii’. This new organism which is a form of bacteria has only found on the International Space Station (ISS). This Bacteria had not found on our Planet.
Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the foremost lab of NASA for work on interplanetary travel, discovered the new bacteria on the filters of the International Space Station (ISS).
Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam had his early training at NASA in 1963 before he set up India’s first rocket-launching facility in the fishing village of Thumba in Kerala.
“The name of the bacterium is Solibacillus kalamii, the species name is after Dr Abdul Kalam and genus name is Solibacillus which is a spore-forming bacteria,” said Dr. Kasthuri Venkateswaran, senior research scientist, Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group at JPL.
