Two men quit their desks and built a rocket. Correct procedure
Mark this: in 2018, two engineers, Chandana and Daka, left secure government posts to build rockets with their own hands and names. Eight years of labour later, their machine stood seven storeys tall at Sriharikota and climbed to orbit in sixteen minutes. This is the old recipe — risk, toil, patience — executed without complaint. Noted and approved.
The rocket bears the name Vikram, for Sarabhai, the father of the nation's space program. Aboard it, sculptures of three elder scientists, carried like household gods to the high frontier. A people that honours its fathers while building above them: this is how it is done. No further commentary required.
A warning, though, for the age of convenience: they call it a 'cab service to space'. Beware the day the heavens become an errand. A frontier reached too easily makes soft passengers; the sixteen minutes were purchased with eight years, and the eight years are the part worth teaching your sons.
One rocket a month from the Hyderabad works, they promise. Good. A factory with a cadence is a cathedral with a schedule. Build. Then rest.