October 22
After days of drama and suspense similar to a thrilling five-day cricket match–due to rain and thunderstorms lashing the Sriharikota spaceport–Chandrayaan-1, India’s first unmanned lunar mission, was successfully launched, on October 22, 2008, marking a historic moment in India’s space exploration programme. “Our journey to the Moon has just begun,” G. Madhavan Nair, the then chairman of the Indian Space... Read More →
