New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has released special modules on India's space programme, tracing the country's rise from carrying rockets on bicycles and bullock carts in the 1960s to emerging as one of the world's most cost-efficient space powers with landmark missions such as Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya-L1.

The modules, India: A Rising Space Power, have been designed with photographs, diagrams and timelines to help students understand the country's space journey.

It highlights how the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR), set up in 1962 under Vikram Sarabhai, grew into the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), which went on to script achievements that have placed...