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Remembering a pioneer Satish Dhawan on his 100th birth anniversary.

Nothing exemplifies the quality of the man than this anecdote shared by APJ Abdul Kalam.

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In 1979, a minor miscalculation led to the failure of the SLV mission. While Kalam and his team sat dejected and heartbroken, Satish Dhawan took the failure upon himself and declared to the press that his team would definitely succeed the next time.
When the mission succeeded in 1980, Satish Dhawan sent Kalam to conduct the press meet without his presence, so that the entire credit was attributed to Kalam’s team.

Needless to say, Kalam nurtured a deep sense of reverence for Prof Dhawan throughout his lifetime.
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