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Sunday November 16, 2008
India lands its first lunar probe
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully landed a moon probe on Friday. Chandrayaan-1, (or Lunar Vehicle, in English translation) is India's first lunar spacecraft and represents a milestone for India in the space race.
India's vehicle and launch is entirely indigenous. I have been following, with quite some fascination, the success and challenges that ISRO has faced over the years. It is quite a remarkable organization and being one of the elite few in the space club is undoubtedly a matter of great pride (as it rightfully should be). Subsequent reports have highlighted how well the probes are working, which is indeed very pleasing to read.
My congratulations on the success of the program and best wishes for future offerings. As a passive onlooker from my undergraduate days when I interacted with some members of ISRO who came over to our IIT (Madras or Chennai, these days) to discuss the programs and later on interacting with some on some usages of parallelism, it has been a pleasure to watch their progress and successes.
Posted by tatkar
( Nov 16 2008, 07:07:47 PM PST )
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Tats,
I always admired the Indian Scientist's intellect & considered them to be the best in the world. In fact I was hoping to seeing you in ISRO.
Pride does come to us to hear of this giant leap of India in the space program.What would be heartening, is to sustain this leap & prove to the world that this was not a flash in the pan.
Posted by Aditya Kaul on January 01, 2009 at 08:45 AM PST #