Hope to be first Asian country to reach Mars in first shot: Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan

SOURCE: TNN India’s 50-year-old space odyssey will start a new chapter this week when an indigenously built spacecraft — affectionately called MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission) — attempts to enter the orbit around the Red Planet after a 680-million-km journey. The orbiting mission will take pictures and collect scientific data for about six months. The most […]



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