They sent a spacecraft called Chandrayaan-3 to land on the moon’s south pole, and it worked! This makes India the fourth country, after the USA, Russia, and China, to do something like this.

The missions before this also found out cool stuff about the moon, like how hot or cold it gets, and that there’s sulphur there. These achievements show that ISRO is really good at exploring the moon and helping us understand it better.

ISRO, a space organization was transporting their rocket parts by bicycle in the early 60s due to lack of funding and resources. And now, they’ve landed on the south people of the People, the first space organisation to be able to do so.

Today, we’re celebrating ISRO’s success, and it’s well-deserved. ISRO is a space agency that loves taking on tough challenges and never gives up, even when things don’t go perfectly. Chandrayaan-3, their latest mission to the moon, gives us hope after two previous missions didn’t work out in 2008 and 2019. Hope is a powerful thing; it makes us stronger and more determined.

The team of brave scientists made a whole new mission in just four years, and they did it without spending as much money as it takes to make big Hollywood movies like Interstellar and Avengers.

ISRO’s path to success has been filled with challenges, from money problems to restrictions in the past. I want to show you how ISRO went from starting small, like transporting equipment in bicycles for launching, to launching missions to the Moon and even the Sun, becoming a big and successful space agency.

How ISRO Was Formed – An Unexpected Journey

ISRO’s journey was like a roller coaster ride it was named as The Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) in 1962 by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India. But its preparation was started way back during British rule in India. When Britishers were busy looting India there were some scientists who were writing about the future of science and space for India.

During that time, a scientist named S. K. Mitra carried out experiments in Kolkata, where he used ground-based radio to study something called the ionosphere. This was an important step in understanding the outer space environment around our planet.

Afterwards, Indian scientists like C.V. Raman and Meghnad Saha also made important contributions to scientific knowledge that helped us explore and understand space better.

It was a tough time for India because India was struggling for its Independence from British India along with starvation & poverty, but as it is said – “Where there is a will, there’s a way”

Indian Scientist kept their morale high and after 1945, two important scientists in India started working together on space research. Their names were Vikram Sarabhai and Homi Bhabha. Vikram Sarabhai created the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, and Homi Bhabha founded the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 1945. They played a big role in advancing space research in India.

Vikram Sarabhai is the name for which Chandrayan 3 Lander was named as Lander Rover. Homi Jahangir Bhabha is known as the father of Atomic Energy in India, his contribution has made India a Nuclear Power.

One day, Vikram Sarabhai and Homi Bhabha met with Jawaharlal Nehru and explained why it’s important to spend money on space projects. After hearing their reasons, Nehru agreed, and in 1962, they started the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR), now known as the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), with Vikram Sarabhai leading the way.

It’s only Dr. Sarabhai’s relentless dedication that NASA entered into an agreement to lend India their Nike Apache rocket. The INCOSPAR initiative’s primary aim was to accomplish this rocket’s successful launch. However, a crucial requirement was a rocket launching facility, which India did not possess at that time.

How India Launched Its First Rocket – The Story Behind Bicycle

The ISRO journey started in a little church in a small village in Kerala. Dr Sarabhai was on a big hunt to find the perfect spot in India to launch rockets into space. His search led him to a quiet fishing village called Thumba in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Something exciting happened there. When he went inside the Mary Magdalene Church, the compass needle did something unusual. Instead of pointing north or south like it normally does, it just stayed still.

This discovery showed that the church was right on the line where the Earth’s magnetic forces balance and the village was very near to the middle of the Earth. Dr Sarabhai saw how important this was – when you launch a rocket from a place closer to the Earth’s middle, it gets a big boost from the Earth’s spinning, making it go up faster and better.

To get the land for their scientific work, Dr. Sarabhai and his scientist friends met the church leader, Reverend Peter Pereira. He greeted them warmly and even invited them to Sunday church.

While they were at church, the bishop told the people there about Dr. Sarabhai’s request for the land. He asked them if they would be willing to give the land for science. The people agreed, and in less than 100 days, they moved away from the land so the scientists could use it.

The church was changed into a place where they designed and built rockets. The bishop’s house became a workshop for making things for space. Even the place where they kept cows turned into a lab. This village became the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Centre.

The moment when NASA’s rocket arrived at the launch platform was quite something – our scientists used bicycles to carry parts of the rocket! and in a bullock cart!. Everything was going well until a sudden problem happened while they were putting the rocket together and setting up the launching equipment.

The machine that lifts heavy things, called the hydraulic crane, started to leak. Even though this was a big challenge, the scientists didn’t give up. They worked together to move the rocket by hand. But then, they found out that the system that was supposed to launch the rocket remotely wasn’t working right. But if you’re resilient and determined nothing can stop you.

After the team talked and decided, they chose a person to control the launcher. Once that was done, everything finally seemed ready. An alarm went off to make sure everyone stayed away from the launch area.

Everyone was praying for the success of ISRO. As the day was almost over, everyone was watching, waiting for India’s big rocket launch.

On the evening of November 21, 1963, at 6:25 PM, something really exciting happened. India launched its very first rocket into space as the sun was setting. This was a huge deal because it marked the beginning of India’s journey into space exploration. After this, our scientists kept working hard and didn’t stop. They completed many amazing space missions and achieved a lot of success without ever turning back.

ISRO, a unique entity, made ground-breaking achievements such as discovering water on the moon through Chandrayaan-1 and launching Mangalyaan to Mars, solidifying India’s prowess in the global space arena.

ISRO’s legacy is a story of perseverance, innovation, and national pride. From its modest beginnings, the organization has ascended to international recognition for its groundbreaking missions, such as discovering water on the moon and launching the Mangalyaan mission to Mars.

As ISRO continues to reach for the stars, it inspires not only India but the entire world, reinforcing the belief that science and exploration hold the keys to understanding the universe’s deepest secrets.

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But this motivation I’m talking about is a bit different or kinda strange as it embraces varied sensations and questions within itself. And perhaps this can be the biggest motivation or reason to keep going and to know who we truly are and our place in the Universe.

Actually, it is a YouTube video that ironically is motivational, beautiful, informational, and can be depressing at the same time.

Just a couple years back I watched a YouTube video – ‘How the universe is way bigger than you think’ by RealLifeLore. And honestly, It didn’t look like much at first, but due to some unknown reasons, I started watching it again & again over time.

Human nature says that if you do certain activities continuously or on a loop then in time you’ll get bored of it and might lose interest.

It’s been more than 2 years for me now. Whenever I feel down or when things just stop working for me, I always fall back on this video or similar kinds of videos.

Although it doesn’t solve any of your life problems or neither give you the exact solutions but for a few hours or a few days it creates an environment in your mind to stop worrying about unnecessary thoughts, it gives you strange but positive hopes which is better than any other motivation. Perhaps this is the best thing, I guess.

Because when your mind stops worrying about negative thoughts, your quality notions get a chance to enter the brain function. So, it is indirectly helping you in a way though. There is absolutely something strange about this kind of video.

How The Universe Is Way Bigger Than You Think?

‘How the Universe is way bigger than you think‘ is all about the enormous and fascinating Universe and how unbelievably vast it is that no human mind is capable enough to even imagine it.

I’m so incredibly astonished by all facts and visualization presented in the video and how insignificant or significant everything can be.

If you are going to watch it for the first time, it’ll gonna blow your mind away. You felt like you are out of this world or maybe Universe. It’ll make you wonder about unknown things.

And as I said, the video is a bit strange. It isn’t right if I just say it is the biggest motivation. As it embraces varied sensations that vary from person to person. It might possible that you even feel depressed or pissed off when you realize that we won’t ever be able to actually see these kinds of stuff with our own eyes.

As It is said in the video too – “We simply don’t know what else is out there because light from these incredible places has not yet had enough time in the Universe’s history to reach us yet, back on Earth. And the light from some places may never reach us at all.”

Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan

I absolutely love the line said by American Astronomer Carl Sagan about the “Pale Blue Dot” i.e., Earth. It is the greatest photograph ever taken in the history of the human species. The photo is taken by the Voyager 1 Space probe which is the furthest man-made object away from Earth. Take a look at these amazing lines:-

Now, what do you think? Isn’t it all amazing? Possibly the most important and significant speech made by any human being. This is the ultimate reality. Sometimes I wonder if humanity is able to know this much about the universe, yet we haven’t even been outside of our solar system. So, why don’t we stop putting money on wars but on space? Wouldn’t it be better?

If you ever feel like everything is slipping from your hand, just step outside and look up at the stars, you feel better. All of your pain and suffering will feel like an illusion. All those numbers, concepts and thoughts we have as intelligent being feels insignificant. They exist because we observe them.

Like Shaun David Hutchinson said, “Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don’t, because we are the ants.”

Do you know what the fun fact is? I’ve always been a commerce student. I don’t much about science but I’m always interested in learning more & more about our universe. It amazed me all the time. It is the biggest motivation I have.

While explaining all this, I can still feel that same sensation that I always have while reading about these things. And for your information, it isn’t any promotional blog to promote any channel. I just feel the urge to share this beyond-belief thought with my fellow Earthians.

Because I believe I’m not the only one here who perceive these emotions, there must be plenty of people with the same thoughts and feeling. And I would like to know your opinion in our comment section.

Before ending, I suggest, if you having a bad day or got a problem in life just watch this video and read more about the related information and facts. And interestingly, it will definitely change the way you look at the sky at night.

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