From carrying parts of the first rocket on a Bicycle to carrying 104 Satellites on a single Rocket.

The Story of - ISRO.

A Thread 🧵👇

1/ India's journey into the space research began with the radio waves and ionosphere research conducted by S K Mitra in the 1920s.

2/ From 1920s to 1940s, S K Mitra and his group conducted tons of experiments and investigations about the ionosphere that seeded the interest in the ionosphere, cosmic rays, and space research in India.

3/ The late 1940s is when researchers in India started coordinating space research. In 1945, Dr. Homi Bhabha established the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) with financial support from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust.

4/ Around the same time, in 1947, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai had returned to India and established Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad to further research on cosmic rays after his doctorate from Cambridge.