Moments that needed no caption. We added one anyway.
C.R. Sathya and Velappan Nair carry a rocket nose cone to the launch pad, Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. 1969 · Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
Rajendra Prasad shakes Nehru’s hand after signing the Constitution of India. 1950 · Nehru Memorial Museum & Library
President Rajendra Prasad readies for India’s first Republic Day parade. 1950 · Public domain
The first campus building of IIT Kharagpur, India’s first Institute of Technology. 1951 · Photo: Bhim Chandra Mondal
The Indian hockey team practises at Richmond Park, ahead of independent India’s first Olympic gold. 1948 · Daily Herald Archive
The gold medal-winning Indian hockey team, weeks after the London Olympics. 1948 · Nationaal Archief, Netherlands
Nehru and Homi J. Bhabha examine a model of an atomic research facility. undated · Photo: via National Herald
Vikram Sarabhai signs the agreement establishing India’s satellite broadcast experiment with NASA. 1969 · NASA
The moment of Mars orbit insertion, ISRO headquarters, Bengaluru. India reached Mars on its first attempt. 2014 · Press Information Bureau
LVM3 M4 lifts off from Sriharikota, carrying Chandrayaan-3 toward the Moon. 2023 · ISRO
The Vikram lander, photographed on the lunar surface by the Pragyan rover. India became the first nation to land near the Moon’s south pole. 2023 · ISRO
