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'Ever Upwards: ISRO in Images' is a collection of over 370 photographs — some of which have never been seen before — which tell the story of the space organisation.
The Indian space programme has the unique distinction of being born in a place of worship: the St. Mary Magdalene Church in Thumba, a fishing hamlet near Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala. From those humble beginnings in 1963, the national space programme grew under the visionary guidance of Vikram Sarabhai and Satish Dhawan to become a technological giant, known today as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Sarabhai created ISRO in 1969.
This year, 2019, marks the birth centenary of Sarabhai and the 50th anniversary of ISRO. This book celebrates the double anniversary through over 370 photographs, curated by the authors from a collection of over 2000. Some of them have never been seen before by the public, while others are eye-catchingly beautiful.
This is the story of ISRO told through images.
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Excerpted with permission from Ever Upwards: ISRO in Images, P V Manoranjan Rao, B N Suresh, V P Balagangadharan, Universities Press.
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