My encounters with Dr Abdul Kalam
My encounters with Late Dr Abdul Kalam: Kalam sahib was born at the holy place of rameshwaram tamilnadu and was influenced by mix culture of islam, christianity and hinduism at that place ।This was visible in him till last day . He studied physics and aerospace science from Madras। Very few people know he was not from ISRO but from DRDS under DRDO and his first attempt was hovercraft । He was transferred to ISRO by govt orders by his request under none other than Dr Vikram Sarabhai who was incharge of ISRO set up in 1969। I prepared and read a technical paper on Inter Continental ballistic missiles with focus on solid fuel propellant engine technology and deployment of multiple war heads। At that time 5000 plus km range was considered as ICBM।These had to go to upper atmoshphere and make re-entry like space vehicles। It was tough job to do research in 1971 and isro was newly setup in 1969 and I visited in 1971 to collect the materials। th...