India Has a Chance to Make History With Mars Mission

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India’s space program could establish a series of firsts this Wednesday when it attempts to enter its Mangalyaan space probe into Mars’s orbit.

If successful, India will become the first country to reach Mars’ orbit on a maiden venture and the first Asian country to launch a successful Mars mission, all with a much cheaper price tag than any Mars mission before it.

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India Space Research Organisation launched the small unmanned satellite Mangalyaan (Hindi for "Mars craft") in November of last year. The probe has spent the last 300 days journeying more than 420 million miles between Earth and the Red Planet at a speed of 13.7 miles per second. Read more...

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