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Chandrayaan successfully orbiting the moon

by Ravi Dixit | November 8, 2008 at 06:20 pm

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After a successful launch this is the icing on the cake for Indian Lunar Mission. ISRO has managed to place Chandrayaan in the Lunar mission. It is noteworthy that India has joined a select league of nationa like Russia, India, China, Japan and European Space agency that have placed crafts in Lunar orbit. As per historical records 50% of the crafts are lost during the exercise to place crafts in the Lunar orbit.

India's first unmanned spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 entered the lunar orbit on Saturday after Indian Space Research Organisation scientists successfully carried out a highly complex and tricky manoeuvre crossing another historic milestone in the country's space programme.

ISRO scientists at the Mission Control Centre near Bengaluru [Images] fired the spacecraft's liquid engine at 1651 hours for a
duration of 817 seconds in a hit or miss Lunar Orbit Insertion operation in the maiden moon mission, 18 days
after it was launched from Sriharikota spaceport.

"For the first time in the history of India, an Indian-made satellite is circulating the Moon [Images]", a jubilant ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair told PTI shortly after the home-grown satellite broke away from the Earth's gravitational field for the first time and reached the moon. India becomes the sixth country to put a satellite in lunar orbit.

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N.A.SRIDHARA RAO (not verified)

at 04:25 on November 18th, 2008

I FEEL PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN WITH SUCH GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS AS HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED BY OUR SPACE SCIENTISTS. NEVER HAVE I A DOUBT ABOUT WHAT WE AS A COUNTRY CAN ACHIEVE GIVEN THE EXTRAORDINARY TEAM WORK DONE BY THESE DEDICATED BUNCH OF SIMPLE INDIANS. KUDOS TO DR MADHAVAN NAIR AND HIS TEAM. THIS IS A GREAT BOOSTER FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION TO HOPE INDIA WILL REACH THE DREAMS OF NONE OTHER THAN OUR SPIRITED GUIDE AND PHILOSOPHER RESPECTED PRESIDENT FOR ALL TIMES - DR ABDUL KALAM.

WE ARE ALL CHARGED WITH THE DRIVE TO ACHIEVE AND SHOW THE REST OF THE WORLD WHAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF--NO MATTER EVEN WHEN THE WORLD SLOWS DOWN WITH ECONOMIC DOWNTREND OR PRESENCE OF WAR MONGERS LIKE GEORGE BUSH