Author: Dr. Pramod Kale

I was very fortunate to have been associated with our Space program right from the beginning of our efforts of tracking low orbit satellites in 1960-1961 at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, and launch of the first sounding rocket from the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) near Thiruvananthapuram in 1963. When I look back on our efforts carried out over the last six decades, I feel honoured to have had the opportunity to participate and contribute in those efforts. Students, teachers, general public at any age are fascinated by ‘Space’. The mystery of the unknown, the remoteness, the adventure,…