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2007-01-22 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2007-01-22 05:42|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Photo of the SRE capsule being mated to the PSLV payload bus

Posted by john 2007-01-22 05:49|| 2007-01-22 05:49|| Front Page Top

#2 ISRO Press Release

Posted by john 2007-01-22 06:31|| 2007-01-22 06:31|| Front Page Top

#3 That is a sweet photo. Serious James Bond looking tech.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-22 13:40|| 2007-01-22 13:40|| Front Page Top

Posted by john 2007-01-22 16:18|| 2007-01-22 16:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Umm, James Bond looking?? Paint a Mercury capsule black and have it recovered upside down, is more like it. And what the hell is that big red thing on the end, some sort of recovery inflatable?

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-01-22 17:30|| 2007-01-22 17:30|| Front Page Top

#6 I think he liked the 'before' photo of the thermal silica tiles on the carbon-carbon backing.

The red thing is a flotation device.

Posted by john 2007-01-22 18:21|| 2007-01-22 18:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Photos from 1964.. the guy on the right is now the President of India.

U.S. scientists from NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) launched the first small rocket from Indian soil - an American Nike Apache - in 1963. "We were waiting for the payload to arrive when we saw a guy on a bicycle coming up an unpaved road," recalls one NASA veteran of the launch. "He had the payload in the basket."

Posted by john 2007-01-22 18:33|| 2007-01-22 18:33|| Front Page Top

#8 PSLV mission photos

Posted by john 2007-01-22 18:39|| 2007-01-22 18:39|| Front Page Top

#9 That's not upside down ShieldWolf, in NASA speak that's Stable II.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-22 18:47|| 2007-01-22 18:47|| Front Page Top

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