'I will say all this happened because of ignorance coupled with arrogance,' says G Madhavan Nair.
Some time before December 31, 2017, Bengaluru based Team Indus aims to land a vehicle on the moon.
'What we are trying for is to make space travel easier like air travel.' 'We have already established ourselves... the fact that other countries are coming to seek our help shows our technology is mature.'
It has already tasted success with the moon mission and Mangalyaan. Is man in space the next frontier for ISRO?
Rediff.com takes a look at spacecraft that have successfully made it to Mars.
'My wife was asked to get out of an autorickshaw because she was married to me. My children were targeted and branded a traitor's children. In spite of the Supreme Court and the NHRC having cleared my case, the state government is yet to close it. Local politicians are behind this. Why can't they close the case, give me compensation, accepting gracefully that they have wronged me?' Dr S Nambi Narayanan, the scientist who was accused and then exonerated in the 1994 ISRO spying case, speaks to Rediff.com's Shobha Warrier about his continuing travails and his recent meeting with Narendra Modi.