Time has an
article by
Rishi Iyengar about the latest thing (
Mom, indeed) to orbit
Mars:
The Indian spacecraft Mangalyaan (also called the Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM) entered Mars orbit, making India the first Asian country to accomplish the feat.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now the fourth space agency to have successfully completed a Mars mission— joining those of the US, Russia, and Europe— and the South Asian nation is the only country to enjoy success on a maiden mission to Mars.
Another superlative: Mangalyaan has set a record for the cheapest Mars mission, costing just $67 million. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier claimed that it was less expensive than the Oscar-winning film Gravity, Indian news channel NDTV reported.
In comparison, NASA’s MAVEN, which entered Mars’ orbit a day earlier, cost ten times as much.
Modi was monitoring the mission’s progress at ISRO headquarters as the team behind Mangalyaan (which simply means “Mars craft”) broke into cheers. He commended the Indian scientists who worked on the mission.
Rico says he wonders who's next: the
Duchy of Grand Fenwick?
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