I asked this of von Braun who had become a cult figure in the States after creating the Saturn rocket in the Apollo mission which put man on the moon. "America is a country of great possibilities, but they look upon everything un-American with suspicion and contempt. They suffer from a deep-rooted NIH—Not Invented Here—complex and look down on alien technologies. If you want to do anything in rocketry, do it yourself," von Braun advised me. He commented, "SLV-3 is a genuine Indian design and you may be having your own troubles. But you should always remember that we don't just build on
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