My recent FB posts about Chandrayaan-2 (India's moon mission-2) launch
https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549253681957860, 22nd July 2019
Great to know that the lift off proceeded well. Prayers and best wishes for the rest of the mission including the vital part of landing an unmanned rover on the moon.
[Shared article: India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/world/asia/chandrayaan-india-moon-launch.html, 22nd July 2019]
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549263165290245, 22nd July 2019
Nice overview of Chandrayaan 2 mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XUZ-ZN21pI, 6 min. 24 secs, published by DW News.
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549265871956641, 22nd July 2019
An around 2 min video of Chandrayaan 2 launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNNUuB21W44, published by NDTV.
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549331548616740, 22nd July 2019
Hats off to ISRO for working so hard to fix the technical snag and then get the launch right the next time around in a week's time: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/staff-burnt-midnight-oil-fix-snag-proud-isro-chairman-k-sivan-recalls-105901
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549348561948372 shared Sadhguru Vasudev & team watching launch in ISRO video: https://www.facebook.com/SadhguruDharshanOfficial/videos/1332266740260541/, 1 min 17 secs. Text on video post: "A spectacular success for the Indian scientists, particularly the whole @isro team. This is truly a massive step for Indian space mission. Every Indian should be proud and this is a moment to celebrate for India. Fantastic. -Sg #Chandrayaan2 #ISRO #GSLVMkIII #IndiaMoonMission"
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549363818613513, 22nd July 2019
ISRO Chief K Sivan Issues A News Briefing After Successful Launch Of Chandrayaan 2 |#IndiaOnTheMoon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsCRr_WEM5c, around 9 mins
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549387035277858, 22nd July 2019
Given the atmosphere of celebration of successful launch of India's Chandrayaan-2 moon mission today, I thought of sharing where India was with respect to the moon from my humble individual perspective, in my teenage years. Then, the moon was famous in Bollywood (Hindi film) romantic songs :-). Here's one of such songs from the film Devta released in 1978 (I was 16 years old then) which was quite a hit then. Chand Churake Laya Hoon (English meaning: I have stolen the moon and brought it (here for you)) - Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Devta Song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs4lWVCEb0A, 4 min. 15 secs. The actors are Sanjeev Kumar and Shabana Azmi. In this song, they have to do the silly stuff to play to the gallery. But these two actors have/had (Sanjeev Kumar is no more) great acting skills which they have shown in many Hindi films, and which I have been privileged to watch and enjoy.
Just goes to show what awesome strides India has made in technology from the 1970s to the 2010s now. Honestly, in my teenage years, I don't think I would have believed that India would successfully send unmanned missions to Mars and the moon in the 2000s and 2010s [India's first (unmanned) mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1, was a lunar probe that impacted the moon on 14th Nov. 2008; Mangalyaan, India's first Mars (unmanned) mission, is a Mars orbiter mission that got placed in Mars orbit in September 2014].
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549404255276136, 23rd July 2019
Super pic!
[Shared President of India's post: https://www.facebook.com/PresidentOfIndia/photos/a.250010018845331/670346250145037/. The pic on that post is shown below.]
[To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.]
Great to know that the lift off proceeded well. Prayers and best wishes for the rest of the mission including the vital part of landing an unmanned rover on the moon.
[Shared article: India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/world/asia/chandrayaan-india-moon-launch.html, 22nd July 2019]
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549263165290245, 22nd July 2019
Nice overview of Chandrayaan 2 mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XUZ-ZN21pI, 6 min. 24 secs, published by DW News.
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549265871956641, 22nd July 2019
An around 2 min video of Chandrayaan 2 launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNNUuB21W44, published by NDTV.
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549331548616740, 22nd July 2019
Hats off to ISRO for working so hard to fix the technical snag and then get the launch right the next time around in a week's time: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/staff-burnt-midnight-oil-fix-snag-proud-isro-chairman-k-sivan-recalls-105901
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549348561948372 shared Sadhguru Vasudev & team watching launch in ISRO video: https://www.facebook.com/SadhguruDharshanOfficial/videos/1332266740260541/, 1 min 17 secs. Text on video post: "A spectacular success for the Indian scientists, particularly the whole @isro team. This is truly a massive step for Indian space mission. Every Indian should be proud and this is a moment to celebrate for India. Fantastic. -Sg #Chandrayaan2 #ISRO #GSLVMkIII #IndiaMoonMission"
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549363818613513, 22nd July 2019
ISRO Chief K Sivan Issues A News Briefing After Successful Launch Of Chandrayaan 2 |#IndiaOnTheMoon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsCRr_WEM5c, around 9 mins
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549387035277858, 22nd July 2019
Given the atmosphere of celebration of successful launch of India's Chandrayaan-2 moon mission today, I thought of sharing where India was with respect to the moon from my humble individual perspective, in my teenage years. Then, the moon was famous in Bollywood (Hindi film) romantic songs :-). Here's one of such songs from the film Devta released in 1978 (I was 16 years old then) which was quite a hit then. Chand Churake Laya Hoon (English meaning: I have stolen the moon and brought it (here for you)) - Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Devta Song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs4lWVCEb0A, 4 min. 15 secs. The actors are Sanjeev Kumar and Shabana Azmi. In this song, they have to do the silly stuff to play to the gallery. But these two actors have/had (Sanjeev Kumar is no more) great acting skills which they have shown in many Hindi films, and which I have been privileged to watch and enjoy.
Just goes to show what awesome strides India has made in technology from the 1970s to the 2010s now. Honestly, in my teenage years, I don't think I would have believed that India would successfully send unmanned missions to Mars and the moon in the 2000s and 2010s [India's first (unmanned) mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1, was a lunar probe that impacted the moon on 14th Nov. 2008; Mangalyaan, India's first Mars (unmanned) mission, is a Mars orbiter mission that got placed in Mars orbit in September 2014].
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2549404255276136, 23rd July 2019
Super pic!
[Shared President of India's post: https://www.facebook.com/PresidentOfIndia/photos/a.250010018845331/670346250145037/. The pic on that post is shown below.]
[To open pic in larger resolution, right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.]
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2550772835139278, 24th July 2019
Interesting! Some Australians seem to have spotted Chandrayaan-2 on its way up. But it was night in Australia and so the sighting looks very different from how the lift off looked in India (at daytime in India).
[Shared IndiaTimes article: https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/wtf/india-s-chandrayaan-ii-flew-over-australia-australians-thought-it-was-a-ufo-371872.html]
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The FB page of ABC North West Queensland where this is discussed with some pics & at least one video: https://www.facebook.com/ABCNorthWestQLD/photos/a.692957074051092/2904165002930277/?type=3&theater
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Comment with video clip: https://www.facebook.com/ABCNorthWestQLD/posts/2904165089596935?comment_id=2904232219590222&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D
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https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2550772835139278, 24th July 2019
Interesting! Some Australians seem to have spotted Chandrayaan-2 on its way up. But it was night in Australia and so the sighting looks very different from how the lift off looked in India (at daytime in India).
[Shared IndiaTimes article: https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/wtf/india-s-chandrayaan-ii-flew-over-australia-australians-thought-it-was-a-ufo-371872.html]
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The FB page of ABC North West Queensland where this is discussed with some pics & at least one video: https://www.facebook.com/ABCNorthWestQLD/photos/a.692957074051092/2904165002930277/?type=3&theater
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Comment with video clip: https://www.facebook.com/ABCNorthWestQLD/posts/2904165089596935?comment_id=2904232219590222&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D
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