March 2019
BIS West Midlands Spring Talks – India & China, Chevaline 16 Mar 2019
Speaker: Gurbir Singh, John Harlow & Paul Jackman Date: Sat 16 March 2019 Start Time: 13:45 End Time: 16:30 Venue: Gardeners Arms, Droitwich, Worcestershire WR9 8LU Talk 1: Gurbir Singh – India and China – A New Space Race? The first tentative steps towards a space programme started in the early 1960s in both countries and initially developed at a similar pace. Today China is way ahead of India when it comes to capability in launch vehicles, the frequency of launches, the numbers of spacecraft in orbit,…
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India v China – A new space race?
Gurbir Singh is an amateur astronomer and a writer. His first book, Yuri Gagarin in London and Manchester, was published in 2011. The book races the visit of the world’s first spaceman’s visit to England with first-hand accounts from the people who saw and met him. His second book, The Indian Space Programme was published in 2017 following 6 years of research. The first tentative steps towards a space programme started in the early 1960s in both countries and initially…
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