d_demandasaurus

Space            ... has always fascinated me! I must have been 8-9 years old when I first read the encyclopedia and these graphic informative books about the Apollo Missions and NASA, at that age I was unaware of ISRO programs or the ones that were attempted by the Soviet Union.  I was 12 when I first saw E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, I still remember observing the weird shape of the spaceship that ET departs before which ET holds up a finger on Elliot's head and says I'll be right here... Damn 20 years !!!,  and that scene still makes me tear up. And then came Koi Mil Gaya which in hindsight was a different movie than E.T. but more on that later... What blew my mind was it took us merely 54 years from taking a flight in our atmosphere to putting a satellite in space. Of course, the American and Soviet space race stopped about 10 years later once Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin supported by the unsung Michael Collins landed on the lunar surface. Tal...