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The Indian Space Programme: India's incredible journey from the Third World towards the First. Kindle Edition

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Fifty years in the making, India’s Space Programme is fulfilling the vision of its founders and delivering services from space that touch the lives of 1.3 billion people every day. In addition to operating a collection of satellites for weather, Earth observation, navigation and communication, today has a spacecraft orbiting Mars and a space telescope orbiting the Earth.
This book provides the big picture of India’s long association with science, from historical figures like Aryabhata and Bhaskara to Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai, the key architects of its space program. It covers the scientific contribution of Indian scientist during the European enlightenment and industrial revolution through the work of physicist S.N Bose, experimentalist J.C. Bose, mathematician S. Ramanujan and Nobel Laureate C.V. Raman and othjers. It traces the technological development of Tipu Sultan’s use of rockets for war in the 1780s; the all but forgotten contribution of Stephen H Smith’s use of rockets as a means of transport in 1935 in northern India and the emergence of Sriharikota – India’s spaceport.
Key questions about the Indian Space Research Organisation covered in the book, include; a detailed account on why a fishing village in Kerala was used to launch India’s first rocket into space on 21 November 1963, what types of launchers India has developed? How are the ordinary people of India benefit from the space programme? How India got to the Moon and Mars? What are the prospects for India’s ambitions in space for human spaceflight, military and science? In space will India compete or collaborate with China, USA and Russia?
This detailed work in 645 pages, 29 tables and 9 appendices is richly illustrated with 140+ illustrations (some images published for the first time) and supported by over 1000 references. It is written for the non-specialist offering a big picture view of India’s space program – its history, current status and future ambitions, all in one place.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B075WG2N8D
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Astrotalkuk Publications (Oct. 4 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 11.2 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 878 pages
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Gurbir Singh

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Gurbir Singh is a UK-based non-fiction writer specialising in space. He studied science and computing and holds a science and an arts degree. Once keen on aviation, he has a private pilot’s licence for the UK, USA and Australia. He was one of 13,000 unsuccessful applicants responding to the 1989 advert “Astronaut wanted. No experience necessary” to become the first British astronaut. Helen Sharman was eventually selected and flew on the Soviet space station Mir in 1991.

He has written articles for The Space Review, Go Taikonauts!, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Spaceflight and has been interviewed for BBC Manchester, Deutsche Welle and the BBC World Service. In late 2018, he stopped working full time as Cyber Security Consultant to spend more time on his writing. He is also the publisher of www.astrotalkuk.org, a not-for-profit astronomy podcast established in 2008.

In 2011, he published his first book, Yuri Gagarin in London and Manchester. The book traces the visit of the world’s first spaceman’s 5-days in England with first-hand accounts from the people who saw and met him. His second book, The Indian Space Programme published in October 2017, is a detailed account of the origin of India’s space programme, its achievements and future ambitions. The third book, India’s Forgotten Rocket Pioneer, is a biographic account of the life and work of Stephen H Smith who experimented with rockets between the 1930s and 1940 in Calcutta, India. In 2022, he helped to publish the memoirs of Leslie Johnson. He served as the Hon Secretary of the British Interplanetary Society when it was founded in Liverpool in 1933. In 2022 he acquired his amateur radio operator's licence - M0KSN.

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  • Pat
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good going!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2018
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    Lengthy, but comprehensive. I knew some of the NASA folks who
    went to India on joint programs. Fascinating story about how the
    technology was purchased and develop-in house. Now, they sent
    a spacecraft to Mars, and well as 100 cubesats to orbit on one
    launch.
    Good going!
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  • Sailendra
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very nice
    Reviewed in India on August 4, 2019
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    Liked it
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  • MR R G EVANS
    5.0 out of 5 stars Heartily recommended!!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2017
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    This was a snap purchase but one I have very much enjoyed. Its not the sort of tome you can read in a couple of days but is non the worse for it. I am by no means an expert, more an enthusiastic amateur but found so much to enjoy as a lover of facts too. Positivity brims from this book, stemming from India's incredible journey starting from nothing in 1963 to todays lofty heights (no pun intended). What are the possibilities for other nations that embark on a similar journey? This was just one of many questions that occurred to me before I was even half way through The Indian Space Programme. Heartily recommended!!
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  • Mr John G Parry
    5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive Guide to India's space programme
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 19, 2019
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    This book is a highly detailed review of the development of India's Space Programme and of the personalities involved. It is useful in putting today's goals in a historical context and will undoubtedly be a text that I will return to again and again as India's space programme evolves. I cannot praise the author's research for the book enough, it is a book that takes time to read, but is highly rewarding for all the insights that the author brings to a much neglected subject.
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