New Delhi – India Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
said on Wednesday that 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.
“India has reached Mars, history has been created,
we are the only country to have succeeded in its
first attempt,” he said.
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.

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