RT/by Rajeev Sharma
India's maiden Mars mission, launched in November 2013, has covered about 80 percent of its journey, and is likely to hit the Red Planet after the 540 million km journey on September 24 as slated.
On June 30, in his address after witnessing the successful launch of the PSLV C23 rocket that sent five foreign satellites into orbit from Sriharikota in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the Indian Mars Mission
had cost less than the Hollywood film Gravity.
"Our program stands out as most cost effective. There is this story of our Mars mission costing less than the Hollywood movie Gravity. I have heard that Mars mission's expense is lesser than Gravity. Our scientists have shown the world a new paradigm of engineering
and the power of imagination," Modi said to the gathering..............[Read more]
(The views expressed above are the personal views of the writer)