“I was alert and up and about and watching what was happening with a hawk’s eye,” said Pallava Bagla, a well-known science journalist who was attending the launch at the Satish Dhawan Space Center, near Chennai. “A beautiful moon was shining down through the clouds and asking the rocket to come to it. Everyone was trying to figure out what went wrong. The excitement was very high.”The countless Indians across the country up in the middle of the night and raptly watching did not know what was going on, either. They were studying printouts and reams of data, they said Monday morning, and would provide more information as soon as they had it.

Source: New York Times July 15, 2019 09:25 UTC