Vikram Sarabhai Built India's Space Programme When India Could Barely Feed Itself
Aishwarya Kapoor | Times Life Bureau | Sept 08, 2026, 07:55 IST
Vikram Sarabhai Built India's Space Programme When India Could Barely Feed Itself
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India's first rocket parts arrived at Thumba on a bicycle. Vikram Sarabhai launched ISRO's predecessor in 1962 with no infrastructure, no money, and a borrowed church. His argument was precise: space was not a rich nation's vanity project. For a country with no roads into its villages and no weather warning for its farmers, a satellite did more than a highway.
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