The Missile Man- Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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An Indian, a great Indian aerospace scientist, the Missile man of India, a role model of every Indian Abul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015).

He was born and raised in Rameshwaram, Tamilnadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering. After that he started fulfilling dream of India to win the space mainly with the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) in 1958 and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in 1969 and was intimately involved in India's civilian space programme and missile development efforts for military.

After rejoining DRDO in 1982, Dr. Kalam devoted himself completely in producing a number of successful missiles resulting this great man got a historical name as “Missile Man.” Among those successes was Agni, India’s first intermediate-range ballistic-missile , which incorporated aspects of the SLV-III and was launched in 1989.

His prominent role in the country’s 1998 nuclear weapons tests solidified India as a nuclear power and established Dr. Kalam as a national hero, although the tests caused great concern in the international community. He also played an exceptional pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India’s Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear testing by India in 1974. In 1998 Dr. Kalam put forward a countrywide plan called Technology Vision 2020, which he described as a road map for transforming India from a less-developed to a developed society in 20 years.

Dr. Kalam wrote several books, including an autobiography, Wings of Fire (1999).

List of Awards achieved by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

1981: Padma Bhushan – Government of India

1990: Padma Vibhushan – Government of India

1997: Bharat Ratna – Government of India

1997: Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration – Government of India

1998: Veer Savarkar Award – Government of India

2000: SASTRA Ramanujan Prize – Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy, India

2013: Von Braun Award – National Space Society


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