“I did not want to let this opportunity pass, and I took the responsibility to prepare myself. I did it in the earnest. It was a penance of six months. I would regularly wake up at 4 a.m. to brush up my knowledge of launch vehicle technologies and systems and prepare myself... I firmly believed that even if I did not make it, my learning would never go to waste.” IndiaPreparationWork EthicIsroHardword Book:My Odyssey: Memoirs of the Man behind the Mangalyaan Mission Source: My Odyssey: Memoirs of the Man behind the Mangalyaan Mission