ISRO

When was the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) founded and who was its first Chief ?

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was founded in 1969 with Dr. Vikram Sarabhai as its founder-Chairman. But India's bold venture in space research began much before, beginning with the work on establishing the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station (TERLS) in 1962 with the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR) under the Department of Atomic Energy. The first sounding rocket was launched from Thumba, near Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, on November 21, 1963. In 1967, a Satellite Communication Earth Station was set up at Ahmedabad.