On cloud nine: An elated ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair (centre) after the PSLV-C11 (left), which lifted off from the Sriharikota space centre on Wednesday, put Chandrayaan-1 into its initial orbit. Rejoicing with him are (from left) George Koshy, Mission Director; K. Radhakrishnan, Director, VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram; T.K. Alex, Director, ISRO Satellite Centre, Bangalore; and M. Annadurai, Project Director, Chandrayaan-1.
