"Twenty years from now, when space travel is likely to become mundane like airline travel today, we don't want to be buying travel tickets on other people's space vehicles."
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Quoted in Pallava Bagla, "India's growing strides in space,", BBC News (2008-04-30).
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G. Madhavan Nair
G. Madhavan Nair (born October 31, 1943) was the past Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation and Secretary to Department of Space, Government of India.
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