TY - BOOK AU - Aravamudan, R. AU - Aravamudan, Gita TI - ISRO: : a personal history SN - 978-9352643639 U1 - 509.2 PY - 2017/// CY - Gurugram PB - HarperCollins Publishers KW - Scientists KW - Indian Space Research Organisation N2 - About the book 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 who laid the foundation to the savvy young engineers who keep Indian spaceships flying today. It is the tale of an Indian organization that defied international bans and embargos, worked with laughably meagre resources, evolved its own technology and grew into a major space power. Today, ISRO creates, builds and launches gigantic rockets which carry the complex spacecraft that form the neural network not just of our own country but those of other countries too. This is a made-in-India story like no other ER -