India Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said Today 23rd September that India
has reached Mars, history has been created, we are the only country to have
succeeded in its first attempt,” he said. India has
become the first nation to have successfully reached Mars on its maiden
attempt.
He announced from the headquarters of the state-owned space agency in the
southern city of Bengaluru,
that with 74 million dollars, the cheapest inter-planetary mission ever to be
undertaken, an historic feat was made for the country’s indigenous space
programme.
Modi said that the success was an indication that India was a country full of
determination to succeed.
“We have made it a habit of achieving the impossible. Humanity would not
have progressed if we had not taken such leaps into the unknown and space is
the biggest unknown out there,” he said.
Modi said that Mars has got its Mars Orbiter Mission, (MOM) and the moment
it was named MOM, he knew it would not disappoint.
He commended the efforts of the scientists of Indian Space Research
Organisation ( ISRO), for the laudable achievements.
“You have inspired our future generation, in spite of our many limitations,
we aspired for the best and the success of our space programme has been an
example of our achievement,” he said.
Modi said ISRO joined an elite group of only three other agencies worldwide
to have successfully reached the Red Planet.
“India has now joined the
U.S. the European Space
Agency and the former Soviet Union in the
elite club of Martian explorers,’’ he said.
He said MOM was launched in November last year, by placing its mission in
the Mars orbit.
5 comments:
This is a huge challenge to developing countries to wake up and do something for themslves.
Well said Andrew my country Nigeria should wake up.
Very commendable India....
this is so interstering
I must agree, India has gone to another level and indeed history has been made
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