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Prof Satish Dhawan (left) and Prof Roddam Narasimha (centre), with KR Narayanan. Image credits – Prof Roddam
Narasimha

Former Indian president, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam once shared a snippet of Satish Dhawan’s
exemplary leadership abilities. In 1979, a minor miscalculation led to the failure of the
Satellite Launch Vehicle mission. While Kalam and his team sat dejected and heartbroken,

Dhawan took the failure upon himself and declared to the press that his team would
definitely succeed the next time. When the mission succeeded the following year, Dhawan

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