India created history on Wednesday, becoming the first country to successfully get a spacecraft into the Martian orbit on its maiden attempt.
Indian Space Research Organisation's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft started orbiting the red planet at 7.47am, but it was only 12 minutes later —because of 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 joy as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood a happy witness.
India's Mangalyaan is world's cheapest Mars mission.
"Aaj MOM ka Mangal se milan ho gaya, aur Mangal ko MOM mil gayi,"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said congratulating scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) for putting India on the world map of space exploration and becoming the first to have a successful Mars mission on debut.Stating that he had complete confidence that "MOM would never disappoint," he said he knew it as soon as the short name for the Mars Orbiter Mission became 'MOM'.
In a speech riddled with metaphors, Modi urged Indians to take pride in Isro's achievement.
"...When our cricket team wins a tournament and returns, the entire country rejoices, this is an achievement greater by a 1,000 times," he said, and added that every school and college must dedicate 5 minutes celebrating this.
"History has been created! We've dared to reach out into the unknown and achieved the near impossible," he said in English soon after.
India created history on Wednesday, becoming the first country to successfully get a spacecraft into the Martian orbit on its maiden attempt.
Indian Space Research Organisation's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft started orbiting the red planet at 7.47am, but it was only 12 minutes later —because of 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 joy as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood a happy witness.
India's Mangalyaan is world's cheapest Mars mission.
"Aaj MOM ka Mangal se milan ho gaya, aur Mangal ko MOM mil gayi,"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said congratulating scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) for putting India on the world map of space exploration and becoming the first to have a successful Mars mission on debut.Stating that he had complete confidence that "MOM would never disappoint," he said he knew it as soon as the short name for the Mars Orbiter Mission became 'MOM'.
In a speech riddled with metaphors, Modi urged Indians to take pride in Isro's achievement.
"...When our cricket team wins a tournament and returns, the entire country rejoices, this is an achievement greater by a 1,000 times," he said, and added that every school and college must dedicate 5 minutes celebrating this.
"History has been created! We've dared to reach out into the unknown and achieved the near impossible," he said in English soon after.
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