Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre condoles APJ Abdul Kalam's death

Describing the demise of former President APJ Abdul Kalam as a great national loss, "particularly for the ISRO community", Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) condoled his death.

"This is a great national loss, particularly for the ISRO community, because he was one amongst us. He was the Project Director of SLV3 launch vehicle from which all the later rockets of ISRO evolved," VSSC said in a condolence message.

Kalam was a peoples' President, who believed that the glory of India would be measured by the temples of education, Science and Technology and ignited the minds of countless students to dream big in life. "He was an ordinary man with extra ordinary achievements," the message said.

"Life is finite but ideas and vision are immortal. Even though he is no more, his vision and ideas are always going to be with us. There are no goodbyes from us, wherever he is, he is always going to be in our heart, inspiring us to fly on the wings of fire in all our future endeavours'.