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What the agency’s planning in the lead up to safe Apollo astronaut landings teaches us about preparing for the next frontier this century.

This article is Part 5 of my series on India’s launch vehicle crisis [links to other four parts are in the first section itself]. A space program can only move as swiftly and flexibly as its orbital rockets, and India has been amid a grinding halt. As such, I’ve been focusing my Indian Space Progress blog & newsletter on fully exploring this situation before resuming coverage of national space activities at large. The whole series spans an analysis timeframe of two decades, and has taken me about a year of work to research and publish. Part 5 completes the series.