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🇮🇳Indian space scientists carrying part of a rocket cone to the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station, 1963@facethenation 💡From bicycle to a billion dreams Back then, even rocket parts and payloads were transported by bullock carts and bicycle to the launch pad 🚲👨‍🔬🚀. It was in these unassuming settings that India staged its first launch. On November 21, 1963 at 18:25, the world was watching as the rocket streaked away into the gathering dusk. Minutes later, a sodium vapour cloud had emerged in the sky high above, tinted orange by the setting sun 🌅. India had successfully put its first signature on space.