India's biggest achievment Mangalyaan reaches Mars orbit
Its glorious and proudly day for every Indian. India creates history, Mangalyaan reaches Mars orbit on maiden try. It will happen this morning when India’s first-ever planetary probe, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), is pushed by its main engine into an elliptical orbit around Mars. MOM and Mars are on different Sun-centric orbits and the spacecraft’s primary engine must fire to alter its heliocentric path enough for the planet’s gravity to take hold and pull MOM into its orbit. "History has been created by our scientists", said PM Narendra Modi in his speech immediately after the scientists declared the mission a success. "We have dared to reach out to the unknown." "When our cricketers win a tournament, we celebrate in a big way. What these scientists have achieved is thousand times bigger," the PM said. This is the riskiest part as any glitch would force MOM to miss the rendezvous and blindly sweep past the planet into space