ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar talks of what's on and what lies ahead for the Indian space agency.
And what happens next?
Once ISRO masters the technology to send humans into space, the next step will be experimenting with technologies allowing humans to live in space.
What goes up must come down. In the science of rocketry, it always comes down with a thud. But that equation may change somewhat on Tuesday when the SpaceX rocket Falcon 9 blasts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with goodies for the International Space Station.
Having reached the Red Planet, ISRO can now focus on getting humans in space and secure the resources to do it
'How will someone who has stood on Mars and looked at Earth, only a tiny blue dot in space, then see the idea of nations and religions and all of our divisions?' says Aakar Patel.
The rain water level may be receding in the city bringing relief to people but it is leaving a huge trail of mess, prompting the Chennai Municipal Corporation to launch a mass cleanliness drive for all its 200 wards on Sunday, for which some of the civic bodies from the neighbouring districts have also lend a helping hand to.
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