India Satellite Mangalyaan Reaches Mars Orbit on First Try: ISRO adds another feather to the cap

Creating history, ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) successfully entered the orbit of the red planet. With this, There was an air of pride, applause and happiness at the Indian space agency's Mission Tracking Centre in Bangalore, after hours of tension and excitement, as the scientists celebrated the success of India's MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission). India has created a history by becoming the first country in the world to reach the red planet's orbit in the first attempt and also the first Asian country to have sent its spacecraft successfully into Mars' orbit.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was present at ISRO's control room since morning (September 24, 2014), said the we have gone beyond the boundaries of human enterprise and human imagination and that the country had achieved the "near impossible".

Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi witnessed the historic moment from ISRO's centre. "MOM has met Mangal," After successful launch PM Modi said, "India has become the first country to enter Mars orbit on a maiden mission." "History has been created today with India reaching Mars.

India's MOM is the cheapest inter-planetary mission. It cost about a tenth of NASA's Mars mission Maven that entered the Martian orbit on September 22 2014.

DID YOU KNOW
India’s MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission) or as informally known: Mangalyaan – is built with a cost of Rs. 454 crores (that is around Rs.4 per Indian, Rs. 12 per km). It is the cheapest Mars mission, ever!

Even NASA said it is impossible but it is ISRO!

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