Srikrishna Chandrasekaran

Level B1 (estimated) · 14 pages · English

ROCKET LIFTING

Written by Srikrishna Chandrasekaran
Illustrated by Sangamithran Raja, Srikrishna Chandrasekaran

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. The sleepy palm-fringed village soon came to be known as Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launch Station (TERLS) and later became Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).