India's space odyssey : from ancient skywatchers to modern-day space missions
Keshan, Nayan2022
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Meet the dreamers and adventurers, go behind the scenes of exciting rocket launches, and blast off into the great unknown with India's space missions. Learn about India's first rocket launching station, which was housed in a 400-year-old church. Know everything you ever wanted to know about the visionaries, such as Vikram Sarabhai, Homi Bhabha, Satish Dhawan, APJ Abdul Kalam, and Kalpana Chawla who wanted India to reach the stars. Find out all this and more in 'India's Space Odyssey', packed with illustrations and photographs from the archives of India's premier national space agency - Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The book traces the history of India's space research, discoveries, and development.
Main title:
India's space odyssey : from ancient skywatchers to modern-day space missions / authors, Nayan Keshan, Arushi Mathur ; illustrators, Devika Awasthi, Priyal Mote.
Imprint:
London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2022.London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2022.
Collation:
152 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 29 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
Audience:
Juvenile.
ISBN:
9780241531327 (hbk)
Dewey class:
629.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2614985