How India developed the space station

Interesting brief post on How India developed the space station (via !dea):

In the early 1960’s …India was slowly awakening to the Space age….Although rest of the world was preparing to reach for the Moon…we were making our humble beginning…a small rocket took off from Thumba on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram, announcing the birth of the modern space age in India. That was when the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) formally came into existence. Over the years, TERLS have given birth to the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) and to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)…

Related:
: The History of India in Space

: History of Indian Space Program

: Wikipedia entry on Indian Space Research Organisation

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[harish nirmal]

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