From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet: India’s Space Journey ed. by P. V. Manoranjan Rao et al. (review)

From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet: India's Space Journey, edited by P. V. Manoranjan Rao, B. N. Suresh, and V. P. Balagangadharan. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in association with HarperCollins India, 2016, 736 pp. This book seeks to explore the history...

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Published in:Technology and culture 2017, Vol.58 (1), p.278-279
Main Author: Launius, Roger D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authorship
Fishing
Government agencies
Indian space program
Mars
R&D
Research & development
Rocket launches
Satellites
Space
Space exploration
Space flight
Teams
Technological change
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Summary:From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet: India's Space Journey, edited by P. V. Manoranjan Rao, B. N. Suresh, and V. P. Balagangadharan. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in association with HarperCollins India, 2016, 736 pp. This book seeks to explore the history of the ISRO. The editors assembled a team of colleagues to contribute sections to the book, and the authorship is without question a who’s who of Indian space leaders, as well as some others who are international figures in the spaceflight community. Rao believes that the main feature of this “compendium,” his descriptive term rather than “history,” is that it traces the space journey of India through the “original voices” of spaceflight pioneers from 1963 through 2015.
ISSN:0040-165X
1097-3729
1097-3729
DOI:10.1353/tech.2017.0022