ISRO employees get free pizza from Pizza Hut

NEW DELHI: To celebrate the success of ISRO's launching of 104 satellites in one go, a pizza chain offered free pizza to ISRO employees across country on Monday.

Pizza Hut invited Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) employees across the country to walk into select Pizza hut stores and treated them to a Pan Pizza.

"It's a moment of great pride for us as ISRO created history and this initiative is a small token of our appreciation to put cheerful smiles on the faces who made the nation proud by achieving such an amazing feat." said Unnat Varma, Managing Director Pizza Hut.

The Pizza hut offered free pizzas worth Rs six lakh to over 2,000 ISRO employees.

On Wednesday, February 15 the space agency created a world record by successfully putting 104 satellites into orbit.

The Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle ( PSLV) lifted off successfully with 104 satellites, including the country's earth observation satellite Cartosat-2 series, from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.