ISRO pioneer R. Aravamudan narrates the gripping story of the people who built India's space research programme and how they did it - from the rocket engineers

Few space programmes anywhere in the world would have had such a modest beginning: one van and a small fleet of precious bicycles used, besides other things, fo

The book enables us to visualize the pinnacle of multiple historical events in rocket science and traces the origin of modern rocketry to India, its birthplace

Discusses the history of rocketry and space travel, and describes a trip to the moon, as imagined in the 19th century and accomplished in the 20th century.