Posted on 09/24/2014 3:31:27 AM PDT by wyowolf
CHENNAI/BANGALORE: India created history on Wednesday, becoming the first country to successfully get a spacecraft into the Martian orbit on its maiden attempt.
Indian Space Research Organisation's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft started orbiting the red planet at 7.47am, but it was only 12 minutes later —because of a time delay in radio signals travelling the 680 million km -- that scientists at Isro Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore, could erupt in joy as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood a happy witness.
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No, I am saying that for a mission to be considered successful, it must return the data that it was sent to obtain. We simply don't know yet whether the Indian mission will complete that mission.
Nice job India
We’ve been pretty successful at mars, better than anyone else. We put yet another probe into orbit a few days ahead of India. So we are doing things too, but not big and bold as we used to.
But your right, this so called “science” president has raped NASA and basically taken a $h!t on anything that brings pride to America.
The Dim/Lib neo Marxist would be p!$$ing and $h!tting themselves if a Republican was doing what the boy king is.
What’s more, we accomplished it essentially from scratch—they had over 40 years of data and outside experience to access.
Lol, life on Mars!
Seriously, congratulations to the Indians.
No longer the red . planet but the brown planet
They should be ashamed of themselves.
First, why aren’t they using that money to feed the poor and hungry in India?
Second, don’t they know that going to Mars will make Muslim countries feel bad about themselves?
Shame, shame, shame.
/sarc
Lol.. I am guessing Modi probably doesnt care what mooselimbs think...
Never been to India, but I’ve heard so much about it.
India itself needs to be careful with Hindu radicals.....
Hinduism is quite damaging in spiritual, economic and political areas.
It would be a big mistake if “Hindu sharia” were to take over India.
I am married to a Tamil, South Indian,she was catholic when I met her..
yes several of her family were very upset about the Modi win for just that reason...
But ALL of her N Indian friends were super happy... but they are in NO WAY religious.. unless you count being a business owner a religion...
I’d hate to be a newly widowed woman under “Hindu sharia”.
Or a Hindu temple child prostitute.
They did this for just over $70M. It took us $671M.
Good job for the Indians.
Christians continue to be persecuted by Hindus in secular India
Persecution of Christians in india by hindus
I agree!
The Indians are definitely to be congratulated!
I wonder how much it would cost them to do Zubrin’s “Mars Direct”?
Haha..... I hope they set their sights even higher, and that the Indians will do what NASA is unwilling to do.
Agreed.
On to the moon, I say. An Indian moon base. This is a big win for their new President, and his administration.
Someone’s got to lead the world.
If I were a leader in the Republican Party, I would have a press conference, and make this the only item, and underline that this used to be the sort of thing we did.
Pray tell me, since you claim to be so knowledgeable, what exactly is Hindu Sharia. As I already pointed out, Hindus did pretty well for themselves until British Colonialism. Colonial control of the economy which began after 1757 and accelerated from 1857 onwards. One example – raw materials such as cotton was sent from India to England mills at no cost. Finished goods from the cotton were then sold back to India.
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