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There were two attitudes towards the summer training program at IIT KGP. Some students would try to wrangle an internship in their hometown or nearby but some of us loved the opportunity to get away as far as possible. In 1980, ISRO had been in the news for having launched SLV, India's first Satellite Launch Vehicle and my father had met a person from ISRO. So I decided to explore an internship there. After pestering our Training and Placement Division, I finally managed to get an internship at ISRO, Trivandrum, even though this was not mandatory at the end of third year. I also managed to convince Rana Bhattacharya to join me on this adventure. There were quite a few challenges with this assignment. First, there was no direct train to Trivandrum, we had to change at Madras. Finding a place to stay was no less difficult but finally we managed to get lodging at the YMCA and eventually we managed to find our way to ISRO. But this chapter is not about the difficulties that we faced a...