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With its engines roaring, the 233-foot-tall booster fell into the launch tower's enclosing arms, hooking itself in place by tiny, protruding bars under the four forward grid fins it had used to steer itself through the air.
Originally slated to spend eight days on the orbiting space laboratory, the astronauts left Earth on June 5 and reached the ISS on June 6.
The names were announced by PM Modi at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) on Tuesday while inaugurating three major technical facilities of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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