Mangalyaan
By: Y. Dakksha Reddy
India has successfully launched its mission into Mars,
also known as The Red Planet. With this India became
the first country to have succeeded in the first try to
Mars mission. The mission was achieved at an
extraordinary low-price tag of Rs. 450 crores – one tenth
of what a similar mission would cost NASA.
Many saw this momentous occasion as the country's
attempt to vie for technological supremacy against the
Chinese. The situation almost seemed reminiscent of the
uncompromising space race fought between the United
States and Russia.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
described their attempts as a technology demonstrator,
with the primary ambition involving the design, planning