On 24 September 2014 (Wednesday), India created history and become the first country to successfully enter the Martian orbit at its initial attempt.
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft of the Indian Space Research Organization, started to orbit the red planet at 7:47 a.m but it was only 12 minutes later — due to a time delay in radio signals travelling the 680 million km -- that scientists at Isro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore, could erupt in jubilance as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood an ecstatic witness... Read more
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