In the calm environs of CoimbaThe surgical strikes of 2016 became a household name in urban India. Targetted strikes along the LC had been taking place earlier too, the size and level of the operations were however on a smaller scale. In this article, the author describes a swift, short, targeted strike near the LC wherein terrorists were neutralized at their launchpad, indicating a variation to normal counter infiltration actions. Some names and locations have been changed to maintain confidentiality. tore, Air Marshal Sarak Nair had a tete-a-tete with our space hero. Now that India is planning a manned mission to space, and since the next astronauts are being trained, it is apt for us to hear the intricacies of space flights from him.