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    India in Space (Updated Edition)
    India in Space (Updated Edition)
    India in Space (Updated Edition)
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    India in Space (Updated Edition)

    By HarperCollins Publishers India

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    Now includes brand new information about CHANDRAYAAN-3, ADITYA L-1 and other upcoming ISRO missions!

    As we rocket into space on the back of several successful missions, this book examines India's glorious space trajectory starting from its first venture, the Aryabhata, to its most recent mission to the Moon, Chandrayaan-3.

    Presented through crisp stories and timelines accompanied by pictures from ISRO and other space agencies, this brilliantly designed, information-rich book will give you a complete update on India's unique place in the world of space exploration.

    It also looks at India's collaboration with space agencies such as NASA, ESA, Roscosmos and others on the world stage besides listing future projects that ISRO is set to launch in the coming years.

    This book also includes:

    • Space trivia, timeline of the Indian space programme and milestones of other spacefaring nations
    • Information on observatories and telescopes
    • Valuable tips on space careers and scholarships for aspiring astronauts, space scientists and explorers
    • Exciting activities by NASA such as building your own satellite and rocket and even making an edible asteroid!

    Pick up this book to explore India's incredible journey into space!

    More in the series: India at the Olympics; Incredible Indians

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarper Children's
    Release dateMay 7, 2020
    ISBN9789353579241
    India in Space (Updated Edition)
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    HarperCollins Publishers India

    Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom is a boxer, a World Champion five times over and winner of an Olympic bronze in 2012 - the first time that women's boxing was part of the Olympic Games. Vijay Santhanam was born in Madras. He studied at the University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee) and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad. His career spanning twenty-one years included senior marketing roles with Procter & Gamble and BP. Having planned for and happily taken early retirement from corporate life, Vijay is now able to pursue his passions wholeheartedly: writing, teaching, following sports and other interests. His latest book, My Stroke of Luck: Alphabet to Author, was first published by Hay House India in June 2013 while the second edition was published by a Singapore-based publisher, House of Rose Professional, in January 2015. Vijay is also a visiting professor at IIM Lucknow. He is currently based in Guangzhou, China. His Twitter handle is @santhanamvijay. Shyam Balasubramanian is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Ahmedabad. He spent his childhood in Bombay (now Mumbai) and lived just fifteen minutes away from the Wankhede stadium. His passions are writing, following cricket and decoding game tactics across sports. This book offered him an opportunity to pursue all three areas. He also follows international football and tennis, usually at the expense of sleep. He thinks cricket teams could borrow tactics from some of these sports to win in certain game situations, and thinks that much more rigorous statistical and performance measures can be implemented. He is deeply interested in the 'business' side of sport, including sports franchise profitability and monetization of sports properties.Shyam has two decades of business experience in different parts of the world: India, South-East Asia, UK and the US. His twitter handle is @shyam__bala Makarand Waingankar is one of India's most widely read cricket columnists, best known for blending meticulous research with his own experience of a life lived on the cricket fields of India. Journalist, columnist, researcher, talent-spotter and administrator, he wears a multitude of hats, each of which fits snugly on his head. He launched the Talent Resource Development Wing (TRDW) on behalf of the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) in 2002 and the TRDW has since been responsible for taking many small-town players to the national stage, including current India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. In fact, seven such players were part of the 2011 World Cup winning team. Makarand has also been CEO of Baroda Cricket Association and Consultant to Karnataka State Cricket Association's academy.

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      India in Space (Updated Edition) - HarperCollins Publishers India

      Contents

      1

      MAJOR MISSIONS: WHAT PLANET ARE YOU ON

      ARYABHATA

      BALLOON EXPERIMENT

      PROJECT NAVIC

      PAST PERFECT

      CHANDRAYAAN-1

      CHANDRAYAAN-2

      MANGALYAAN

      LOOKING AHEAD

      PEOPLE WHO MADE IT HAPPEN

      2

      INDIA AND THE WORLD: HITCHING OUR WAGON TO A STAR

      TEAMING UP WITH ROSCOSMOS

      COLLABORATING WITH NASA

      JOINING HANDS WITH ESA

      INDIA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

      SPACE FIRSTS

      3

      INFO CORNER: WATCH THIS SPACE

      OBSERVATORIES AND TELESCOPES

      SPACE CAREERS & SCHOLARSHIPS

      LEAVING A STAMP

      ROCKET COMPARISON

      SPACE SCOOP

      TIMELINE

      4

      NASA DIY EXPERIMENTS: IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!

      MAKE A PINWHEEL GALAXY

      MAKE COLOURFUL STAR COOKIES

      BUILD A ROCKET!

      BUILD YOUR OWN SATELLITE

      A SUPER SOUND CONE

      SEE INSIDE A CLOSED BOX

      MOUNTAIN AND A TOPO MAP

      STRETCHY UNIVERSE SLIME

      MAKE ASTEROIDS YOU CAN EAT

      GLOSSARY

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      ABOUT THE BOOK

      ABOUT THE AUTHORS

      COPYRIGHT

      FOREWORD

      BY PALLAVA BAGLA

      Leaving a mark

      Pallava Bagla is the only journalist to have seen the Mars orbiter almost a year before it was launched. The orbiter still carries his fingerprints.

      My love for exploring space took off in the early 1970s when I was a teenager. My mother, a geographer, held my little finger and took me to see a unique exhibition in Kanpur. It was showcasing a sample of the moon rock brought back to Earth by Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the lunar surface in 1969. Since then, I have been exploring the limitlessness of space, mostly as a photojournalist for the youthful and wonderful Indian space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

      Watching Astronaut Rakesh Sharma soar into space on a Russian rocket in 1984 consolidated my dream to fly into the unknown or at least be a part of its excitement in some way. In 2009, India’s Chandrayaan-1 startled the world by discovering the presence of water on the lunar surface, thereby disproving the belief that the Moon was parched like a desert. Again, in 2014, a young Indian team of engineers made sure that Mangalyaan reached the orbit of the Red Planet, an achievement that cannot be credited to any other country in its first attempt. Most recently in 2019, India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission captured the imagination of 1.3 billion Indians by successfully reaching the Moon’s orbit. These incredible achievements by our country have only deepened my passion for space. Children can now aspire to explore the solar system and the vast universe using indigenous resources even as other space agencies like USA’s NASA, Russia’s Roscosmos, Europe’s ESA and China’s CNSA continue to offer exciting opportunities to touch the skies.

      India is planning to have her own Human Space Flight programme named Gaganyaan, wherein an Indian will be launched into space on an Indian rocket from our home soil. In all likelihood, this historic event will coincide with India’s 75th Independence anniversary in 2022. With this, every young boy or girl in India can aspire to be a ‘Vyomnaut or Gagannaut’ and take that giant leap into space.

      India already has about 50 satellites in space, some equipped with eagle eyes that keep a sharp vigil to safeguard our national interests. Today, India’s vast digital infrastructure is powered through her huge fleet of communication satellites, which also assist in weather forecasting and assessing the risks due to climate change.

      Hailed globally for its low-cost space programmes, India will be the hotspot for more and more opportunities to explore the little-known mysteries of Venus, the asteroids and the Sun. India also hopes to have her very own space station in orbit by the end of the next decade, using a reusable launch vehicle. India will be the only country attempting to master this complex technology.

      I wish I were your age as

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