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100			_aRao, P.V.Manoranjan _945050
245			_aFrom Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet _b: India's Space Journey _cEdited by P.V. Manoranjan Rao and others
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNoida _bHarperCollins Publishers _c2015
300			_axiv, 689p. _bHB
500			_aOn 21 November 1963, the first rocket took off from Thumba, a fishing hamlet near Thiruvananthapuram, announcing the birth of India's space programme. The rocket, the payload, the radar, the computer, the helicopter - all that was required for the launch - came from outside the country. Fifty years later, on 5 November 2013, when ISRO launched its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, all of it had been indigenously manufactured. Ten months after the launch, on 24 September 2014, India became the first country in the world to put a satellite around the Red Planet in the very first attempt. From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet tracks this stupendous journey through articles, interviews and reminiscences with contributions from intellectual giants like Dr Vikram Sarabhai, Satish Dhawan, M.S. Swaminathan, Jacques Blamont, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, U.R. Rao and Dr K. Kasturirangan, among others, this is the story of India's space journey from its modest beginnings to its rendezvous with Mars.
650			_aPhysics _945051
650			_aIndian Space Research Organisation _945052
650			_aSpace sciences -- India _945053
700			_aSuresh, B.N. _945054
700			_aBalagangadharan, V.P. _945055
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