As Chandrayaan 3 makes history, here’s a throwback video of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam recalling lessons he learned from failure.
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00:00Dear friends, we have failed today. T minus 4 minutes, T minus 5 minutes, T minus 1, 1 minute, T minus 40 seconds.
00:11Computer put a hold, don't launch it.
00:181979, 1979, SLV-3, satellite launch vehicle, I was the project director, mission director.
00:29My mission is to put the satellite in the orbit.
00:33Thousands of people worked nearly 10 years.
00:36I reached the Sriyari quota and it's in the launch pad, countdown was going on.
00:43T minus 4 minutes, T minus 5 minutes, T minus 1, 1 minute, T minus 40 seconds.
00:52Computer put a hold, don't launch it. Computer says don't launch it.
00:57I am the mission director, I have to take decision.
01:00Everything is on, behind me there are 6 experts.
01:04They saw data computer, database coming in and screen and they see the pictures in the screen, they said there is a problem.
01:13The problem is there is a leakage in the system, in the control system.
01:18But immediately they calculated, no problem.
01:21We have got sufficient fuel and oxidation for control system, it controls the rocket to the required attitude.
01:28And we can go ahead.
01:32Now, of course, my experts view, but I took a decision.
01:37Problems, finally I took a decision, I bypassed the computer, I launched the system.
01:43First stage worked with a 4 stage rocket and second stage got mad.
01:48It went to spin, instead of putting the satellite in the orbit, it put in the Bay of Bengal.
01:551979, it was a failure. It was the first time I experienced my failure.
02:02How do you manage the failure? Success I can manage.
02:06So at that time a great man, a great leader, Prof. Sathish Dhawan,
02:13he comes to me, I am very tired, working nearly for months.
02:17He wakes me up, come, let us go for a press conference.
02:21Press meeting there, like this, number of people, world press,
02:25with photo, this and that, all the gadget, they are there.
02:28I was highly frightened, I will be the culprit.
02:31Because I am the Project Director, Mission Director.
02:34What Sathish Dhawan said, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation said,
02:38Dear friends, we have failed today.
02:41This is the first time, I have to give all the success, all the failure,
02:48I want to support my technologists and scientists and staff,
02:53so that next year they succeed.
02:55So he took the whole bay himself.
02:58And then media asked, you have put Bay of Bengal so many crores,
03:04like that lot of criticism, he received the criticism,
03:07he assured them, in a year we will succeed with our team, it's a very good team.
03:11Next year, here only interesting happened, next year, July 18th, 1980,
03:18when he succeeded, Prof. Dhawan said, you go and conduct the press conference.
03:24Do you follow, what this means?
03:26It means when the failure occurred, the leader took it up.
03:29When the success came, he gives to his team.
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