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

India's first mission to Mars, Mangalyaan blasted off successfully, completing the first stage of an 11-month journey that could see New Delhi's low-cost space programme win Asia's race to the Red Planet.

It was launched in November 2013 on board a polar rocket from the spaceport Sriharikota off the Bay of Bengal, about 80 km north-east of Chennai. The spacecraft get attached to the Martian transfer trajectory on December 1, 2013.

"India will become the first Asian country to have achieved this and if it happens in the maiden attempt itself, India could become the first country in the world to have reached distant Mars under its own steam in the first attempt," K Radhakrishnan, the head of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said.

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