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Nobel Laureate CV Raman, Homi J Bhabha, Vikram Sarabhai and more - find out everything about these scientists who contributed to building India.

“I was in a comfortable and prestigious central government scientific position in the Department of Atomic Energy,” informs Aravamudan. Despite the friendly warnings from friends about leaving a prestigious job for something still in its nascent stage, Aravamudan accepted.

On November 21 1963, that a small rocket took off from Thumba on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram, announcing the birth of the modern space age in India. This is the interesting story of Indian space history's first milestone.