It was an event of the 20th Century. At 01.30 AM on 12th April 1961, Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin flew to space, creating history as the first man to do so. The entire world was enthralled to hear the great news. USA as well as USSR have been conducting tests regarding flight to space. USSR won the race by sending the first man to space.

It was a sharp space race after that. USSR and USA improved one on the other by conducting flights to space. And on 21 July 1969 Neil Armstrong, USA became the first man to walk on the moon.

Many space travels have taken place after that. Indian women Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams also had travelled to space and returned, but the space shuttle in which the former travelled crashed before reaching and all the persons in that shuttle died.

The space travels, to the moon and beyond is continuing. One question will be in the minds of many Indians.When India will be able to send a person to space on its own?