Important List of India Space Research Centers
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Important List of India Space Research Centers
| S.N. | Location | Space Centre |
| 1 | Sriharikota ( Andhra Pradesh ) | Satish Dhawan Space Centre |
| 2 | Thiruvananthapuram | Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre |
| Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre | ||
| ISRO Interial Systems Unit | ||
| 3 | Shillong | North eastern space application centre |
| 4 | Kharagpur | Eastern RRSC-Regional Remote Sensing Centre |
| 5 | Hyderabad | NRSA or NRSC – national remote sensing agency /centre |
| 6 | Tirupati | NMRF-National Atmospheric Research Laboratory |
| 7 | New Delhi | DOS branch secretariat |
| ISRO branch office | ||
| Delhi earth station | ||
| 8 | Port Blair | Down range station |
| 9 | Kerala | ALUVA – Ammonium perchlorate experiment plant |
| 10 | Mahendra Giri | Liquid Propulsion Test Facilities |
| 11 | Dehradun | Indian Institute of remote sensing |
| Northern RRSC-Regional Remote Sensing Centre | ||
| Lucknow | ISTRAC ground station | |
| 12 | Hassan | INSAT master control facility |
| 13 | Bangalore | Space commission |
| HQ –ISRO | ||
| INSAT programme office | ||
| NNRMS secretariat- National Natural Resources Management System | ||
| ANTRIX corporation | ||
| ISTRAC-ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network | ||
| ISRO satellite centre | ||
| Liquid propulsion systems centre | ||
| 14 | Mumbai | ISRO Liaison office |
| 15 | Nagpur | Central RRSC-Regional Remote Sensing Centre |
| 16 | Mount Abu | Infrared Observatory |
| 17 | Ahmedabad | Space Application Centre |
| Physical Research Laboratory | ||
| Development & educational communication unit | ||
| 18 | Jodhpur | Western RRSC-Regional Remote Sensing Centre |
| 19 | Udaipur | Solar Observatory |
| 20 | Balasore | Remote Sensing Centre |
Space Research Area Information
- The first man to enter space – Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian)
- The first woman cosmonaut of the world -Velentina Tereshkova
- The first American astronaut to float in space – Edward White
- The first space-vehicle to orbit the moon – Luna-10 (U.S.S.R.)
- The first person in the world to land on the moon – Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Adrin Jr. of U.S.A. Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon followed by Aldrin. July 21, 1969.
- The first woman of Indian origin in space – Kalpana Chawla
- The first space tourist in the world – Dennis Tito (U.S.A.)
- The first successful moon mission of India– Chandrayan-I (October 22, 2008)
- The first space woman to stay for the longest ever Perivale of time in space – Sunita Williams
- The first US space shuttle to explode while returning home killing all the astronauts – Columbia (February 1, 2003)
- The first space tourist of S. Africa and second of the world – Mark Shuttleworth (April 2002)
- The first European woman to international Space Station – Claudie Haignere (French cosmonaut)
- The first Indian to go into space – Rakesh Sharma
- The first space rocket brought back to earth after orbiting the moon – Zond-5
- The first unmanned moon buggy to explore surface of the moon – Lunakhod-1 (U.S.S.R.)
- The first Probe Mission to planet Pluto – New Horizons (U.S. launched on January 19, 2006)
- he US software pioneer who became the first person to travel twice to space as a tourist – Charles Simonyi (March 26, 2009)