Within a space of three decades since independence India has made great progress in science and technology, thanks to the foundations laid by the scientists like Homi Bhaba with the enlightened support of Pt. Jawahar La3 Nehru.
India launched its first rocket on November, 28, 1963 from Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Site. In 1968 tills site was formally dedicated to the United Nations Organization (UNO), when India repeated its policy of peaceful uses of space research. India has been associated with several countries like the U.S.A., Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain and Japan in many joint ventures.
More than 600 sounding rockets, foreign and Indian, have been launched during the last two decades or more from Thumba Launching Site for collecting meteorological studies. Even now as part of the programme called Monasc-77, four Russian and two Indian ships are stationed in Indian Ocean to carry out joint studies relating to
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