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Reaching for the Stars

Reaching for the Stars


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This is the untold story of India’s marathon to Mars, from the Red Fort in Delhi to the Red
planet. A historic,geo-political dash with its regional rival China, in this 21st century
Asian space race. “We have done a lot,but yeh dil maange more.” This evocative
challenge, which translated into English,reads “this heart desiresmore”, this challenge
came from India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to scientists and engineers of the
Indian space programme when he spoke at India’s rocket port in Sriharikota in southern
India. Indeed. India’s relentless appetite for spacefaring
activities led the country to
mount its firstever
interplanetary mission, to the Earth’s neighbour Mars. The Mars
Orbiter Mission, or Mangalyaan, began a tough and treacherous journey of 690 million
kilometers through deep space on 5 November, 2013. Inter-planetary journeys are
uncharted territories, inspiring human minds and the machines that are created in a
million ways. This is the story of a scintillating 15-month
roller-coaster ride, quite literally a hundred meter dash to accomplish a marathon that
the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) got onto after the historic
announcement from the Red Fort in Delhi on 15 July, 2012, that India was heading to
Mars, propelling India into an exclusive Martian club.

About the Author

Pallava Bagla is a globally acclaimed science communicator and photographer who in a career spanning more than a quarter century has seen from close quarters the blossoming of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). His insightful command of India’s secretive nuclear, missile, and space programme is unparalleled. Pallava works for the Science magazine and New Delhi Television. Subhadra Menon is an award-winning writer and much sought-after public speaker with several books to her credit. Over the years, she has acquired deep insights into many of India’s major developmental programmes. She works with the Public Health Foundation of India in New Delhi, where she is Professor, Health Communication.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789384052324
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 187 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9384052329
  • Publisher Date: 10 Mar 2016
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Spine Width: mm


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