Ipsita Agarwal

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India's Journey To Mars And The Women Who Made It Possible

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Produktbeschreibung

The inspirational true story of India's race to the stars - and the women who made it possible.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India's first interplanetary mission, named Mangalyaan, and a huge gamble.

Nine months later, when Mangalyaan successfully entered into Mars' orbit, it created history. Until this point, when we thought of rocket scientists, we imagined men from NASA in crisp white shirts. But India's success instead came from the genius and tireless efforts of scientists in silk sarees.

With a Whistle in the Dark follows the stories of three women central to the building of India's space programme, and the success that came after. These women got Indian rockets to Mars, but faced cultural and gender barriers so immense, that by pursuing a life of science, they started a rebellion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781841883618
• Artikelnr.: 59738055

Autorenporträt

Ipsita Agarwal is a journalist and scientist born in Kolkata and raised in towns across India and Indonesia. After finding herself second highest in the country for physics, she joined Loughborough University in 2011. The focus of her research was on autonomous systems that have applications in aviation and space. Since 2017, Ipsita has written journalistic pieces that have some bearing in STEM and her work has appeared in publications such as WIRED. Buzzfeed and Smithsonian magazine.