The Economic Times

Mumbai boy, who grew up in 810 ft room in slum, survived on bread and chai, now works at NASA

Jaykumar Vaidya currently works at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as an electrical engineer. But in contrast to the majority of his contemporaries, his path to NASA was not an easy one. It started in Mumbai's slums rather than a posh classroom. No stranger to financial struggles, once he had a menial job that paid just Rs 4,000 per month and survived on vada pavs and samosas.