A Brief History of Rocketry in ISRO

by P.V. Manoranjan Rao

This book attempts to showcase India’s capabilities in rocketry developed over the past 45 years (1963-2003). Starting from scratch, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) painstakingly mastered this technology in a remarkably short time. The book explains the complex technological developments in the field for the lay person. It also records historical events and provides biographical sketches of legendry personalities like Bhabha, Sarabhai, Dhawan and Brahm Prakash highlighting their contributions to building modern India.

Salient
Transcripts of interviews with key personnel
Evocative photographs that chart the progress of the rocketry programme
Extracts from biographical articles
Comprehensive name and subject indexes

Genres: Science, Space, History

404 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Premkumar Bhaskal]

inspiring.

[Tom]

A great primer on India's space program. The text was written at the level of a layman but the footnotes often went into some depth on stumbling blocks encountered by the space pioneers of the subcontinent. The reader is left with a great understanding of the framework of their program along with the hows and whys of the systems it developed. Additionally relevant are all the missteps they encountered (which were often very different than those encountered by other nations).

[Jithin Mathew]

Good account on ISRO... Excellent for laymen

[tony pressler]

ok ok

[Aditya Raghav]

I am crazy about the ISRO and space activities. I want to go also in ISRO.