The first attempt to launch SLV-3 was unsuccessful. As expected, there was a press conference immediately, where reporters had many questions.
While Abdul Kalam felt responsible for the crash, his chairman Professor Satish Dhawan took it upon himself to answer all the questions with confidence. He promised the media to launch SLV-3 exactly a year later.
The entire team worked doubly hard to make it happen, and a year later, it was a grand success! There was another press conference, but this time, Prof. Satish Dhawan gave the mike to Abdul Kalam. To him, Prof. Dhawan was an ideal and inspirational team leader.