“How the secret behind ISRO’s success lies in India’s civilisational continuity”, First Post, September 1, 2023:
In 1983, the year India was jubilant due to its first ever cricket world cup victory under ‘Dream 11’, led by skipper Kapil Dev, American novelist Tom Wolfe wrote ‘The Right Stuff’ on Apollo 11, the astronauts who were part of the world’s first manned moon flight in 1969.
The book’s title has since become the hallowed byword for American grit, dexterity, passion, innovation, unsurpassable energy, vibrancy, and the quest to do the unthinkable.
Written by a non-expert, non-scientist, it has become the canonical text on the high glories of American space, which settled the score on space race, heralding a new era of collaboration between the two rival superpowers…..”
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