India's odyssey into space began on bicycle, bullock cart!

It could be a strange coincidence. November 21, 1963 too was a Thursday. As the Sun set in the Arabian Sea, a Nike Apache sounding rocket took off from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS), an obscure fishing village near Thiruvananthapuram , announcing India’s entry into space science. It was a rocket built by National Aeronautics...

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