Congratulations Indians! The ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) has today achieved a historic feat with Mangalyaan which we all should be proud of.
With India's homegrown Mangalyaan mission, India has become the first country in the world to enter Mars' orbit in it's first attempt. This has also been the cheapest and most cost efficient Mars Mission in history, costing only 450 crore rupees ($75 million), which is just one-tenth of the $670 million dollars that NASA spent on it's Maven explorer.
The cost of the mission, is said to have been less than the money used to make the Hollywood movie "Gravity" which cost $100 million.
Europe's 2003 Mars Express Orbiter had costed them around $386 million. Another Mars Mission by Japan which had failed to enter Mars' orbit cost more than double of that of Mangalyaan's. The Phobos-Grunt from Russia failed to leave the earth's orbit but still had cost them around $117 million.
The ISRO is already planning further missions which includes a mission to send a rover to the Moon. India will surely be a superpower in the future if it continues to achieve such feats.
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