In 1947 , two years passed away after world war 2 , and tension were increasing between Us and Soviet Union, both countries emerged as superpowers after the war , but their political ideology has big clash , the heavy rivalry between the two , turned into cold car, at that time , both countries were trying to make their nuclear weapons more strong, so both countries were developing, intercontinental ballistic missiles , for this ballistic missiles they have to launch a rocket in outer space, both countries knew , if any nation developed that rocket, it will lead to a advantage over other
Both countries get into the race of developing outer space rockets, the space race starts , in 1955 , America announced, launching artificial satellites into space, some days after this , Soviet Union, they too, wanted to launch satellites , two years later in October 1957, Soviet Union surpassed the race , they made history by launching Sputnik, (world first satellite), one month later , they send second satellite Sputnik 2, this time , in the satellite their was a animal , a dog , which name was (Laika) , America catch up in 1958 , when it launched its first satellite, explorer 1 , the competition was so extreme, that space technology, was progressive rapidly, in meanwhile, an Indian scientist, dr Vikram Sarabhai , was quite inspired by this development of space technology
By 1962 , he convinced, Jawahar Lal nehru, that india should have its space program, and freinds this is how isro was ,born , in starting isro name was INCOSPAR , and because of this , we know Vikram Sarabhai as the father of space program, in the starting INCOSPAR has very limited resources and infrastructure, that rocket parts were transported on Cycle and bullock carts , in 1963 , india launched its first rocket, this was a sounding rocket, then other rocket named Rohini was launched on 20th November 1967 , then in 1969 , INCOSPAR was renamed as isro
In 1975 , india launched its first satellite, the name was Aryabhata, then india becomes sucess ful in making own launching vehicles, first satellite launch vehicle SLV/3 was used , to send the Rohini satellite, after this isro , worked on several launch vehicles, (ASLV) and (PSLV) and (GSLV) after that in 1983 , isro launched its satellite (INSAT) with this in india television broadcasting was possible, in 1984 , one more record, (rakesh sharma) a former pilot of the Indian Air Force, became the first Indian to travel in space, after two decades, isro has progressed more , in 2008 chandra yaan 1 was sucess ful , and now we are seeing the tremendous success of Chandrayaan 3 , which we and world are celebrating
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