ISRO’s ‘Monster’ Rocket Sends Home ‘Selfies’, Finds Major Fans on Twitter!

 
 
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has already been nailing it with the launch of the ‘monster’ rocket, the GSLV Mark-III on Monday.

Adding a cherry to the cake, a video released by the space organisation capturing India’s largest rocket is trending on Twitter for all the interesting reasons.

Immediately gaining the moniker of the ‘Selfie’ video by the netizens of Twitter, the video captures the lift-off and onboard camera views of the 141-foot indigenous rocket.

The triumph of ‘Baahubali’: Amazing ‘selfies’ from @ISRO rocket
Read: https://t.co/726LU3RAce pic.twitter.com/jvwFegWDzV

— NDTV (@ndtv) June 7, 2017

Also known as the ‘Fat Boy’, GSLV Mark III, is India’s heaviest and most powerful rocket ever to be made and has been reportedly compared to the weight of 200 elephants or five jumbo jets.

Take a look at some of the ‘selfie’ tweets posted by the social media users:

The Baahubali rocket?

Deligthful @isro India’s Baahubali rocket the GSLV Mk III sends back lovely a selfie https://t.co/PPDTR3Xi7D Enjoy @PMOIndia @narendramodi
— Pallava Bagla (@pallavabagla) June 7, 2017

ISRO definitely doesn’t like to stay behind!

Everybody is crazy about a selfie these days, why should the @isro rocket be left behind. Amazing!!! https://t.co/dJBdR4w3dI
— Chetan Sethi (@sethichetan) June 7, 2017

Cues from ‘Selfie mene le li aaj’?

.@isro launched India’s biggest rocket GSLV MkIII D1, while we all saw the lift-off, here’s the unseen on-board ‘selfie’ footage. @abpnewstv pic.twitter.com/pVmEogRnYR
— Pinky Rajpurohit (@Madrassan) June 7, 2017

Or maybe not!

Selfie time by @isro https://t.co/E1BJNstzWF
— meenal dhande (@meenal_dhande) June 7, 2017

You can watch the ‘selfie’ video here.

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