Mission Mars: ISRO's Journey From Blue To Red Planet

BANGALORE: As India successfully placed its spacecraft in orbit around Mars, September 24 will go down in history as a red letter day. With the success of Mangalyaan, India has become the first country in the world to go to Mars in the very first try. European, American and Russian probes have managed to orbit or land on the planet, but after several attempts. Not to forget, it has taken India four years to achieve this milestone.

Read on to know ISRO’s Mangalyaan journey from blue to red planet.

History:

In 2010, The MOM mission concept began with a feasibility study, after the launch of lunar satellite Chandrayaan-1 in 2008. The government of India approved the project on 3 August 2012 after the Indian Space Research Organization completed 1.25 billion ($21 million) of required studies for the orbiter.

Three years ago, Dr V Adimurthy drafts a feasibility report, the first ever, on a mission to Mars. Today, when India's Mars orbiter Mangalyaan successfully entered the red planet's orbit, he exclaimed, "It is a dream come true," reports NDTV.
Dr Adimurthy further described the Mangalyaan mission as a "well-conceived mission. We wanted to reach this place in the shortest possible time."

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