Vedic Ion Engine Department of Aeronautical Engineering, MLR Institute of Technology  In 1895 on a beach in the city of Mumbai (Bombay, Maharashtra, India), Shivkar Bapuji Talpade, a Sanskrit scholar, proved that heavier-than-air flight was indeed possible. Talpade put his knowledge of Sanskrit at the disposal of his creative intellect and constructed an aircraft according to the description given in the  rig-veda. it is reported that this flying machine gained an altitude of 1500 ft. most aptly, he called his aircraft the "Marutsakha"- friend of the wind. The engine now being developed for future use by NASA, by some strange coincidence, also uses Mercury bombardment units powered by Solar cells. not only had the idea of an Ion Engine been conceived long before Dr Goddard, but it had also been materialized in the form of Talpade's Marutsakha Aircraft. Scientific thought began in Vedic civilization earlier than in the West; we should not ignore that fact