Indian Space programme
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian scientist and innovator widely regarded as the father of India's space programme. Sarabhai received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Medal in 1962. The nation honoured him awarding Padma Bhushan in 1966 and Padma Vibhushan in 1972.
At the age of 28, he successfully established the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad. He was also an integral part in the process of setting up of the world’s largest government space agency, ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization).
Dr. Sarabhai even started a project to model and launch an Indian satellite, which caused the launch of Aryabhata in 1975 from a Russian Cosmodrome.
