India’s first ever mission to Mars successfully completed its first stage Tuesday, as a rocket carrying the Mangalyaan Mars orbiter delivered the spacecraft into earth’s orbit, some 45 minutes after lift-off.
Mangalyaan will embark on a 780 million-kilometre journey to the Red Planet and is expected to enter the Martian orbit by September 2014.
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