The Indian Space Research Organisation’s launching of Chandrayaan-1, the country’s first-ever moon probe, that detected water on the moon and its subsequent announcement that it would land an Indian on the planet by 2020 were celebrated events that sent sky-high the scientific community’s fame a couple of years back. So any fall from such dizzying and morale-boosting highs is bound to make thunderous impact as in the case of the government’s recent blacklisting of four space scientists over a controversial deal. The confidence at the space agency could not have plummeted any lower. Read More
