Congratulations! ISRO's Mangalyaan Brings Glory For India, Successfully Enters Martian Orbit
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India's much-awaited
At 7:10 am (IST), state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (
After Mangalyaan entered the Mars orbit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was present at the ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network, said, “History has been created today. We have dared to reach out into the unknown and have achieved the near impossible."
The Prime Minister congratulated Indians and ISRO scientists for the success, adding that the success of India's mission to Mars "will go down as landmark in history.”
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ISRO has now become the fourth international space agency after National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US, Russian Federal Space Agency (RFSA) and European Space Agency to undertake a mission to Mars.
Not to forget, India made history by becoming the first country in the world to enter the Martian orbit in its maiden attempt and this ends the much-anticipated rendezvous of Mangalyaan with the Red Planet.
Image: ISRO
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