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After Successful Launch, India's Mars Orbiter Is On Its Way

Posted by timothy on from the david-bowie-on-high-alert dept.

neo12 writes "India has successfully launched a spacecraft to the Red Planet — with the aim of becoming the fourth space agency to reach Mars." As our previous mention of the launch notes, getting to Mars by rocket is a long haul: if all goes well, it will be about 10 months until Mangalyaan reaches orbit.

2 of 166 comments (clear)

  1. Re:0.37% of India's total budget by cusco · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You forget that according to the Libertardians there are no benefits ever from taxes, except for the military.

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  2. Message to the racists posting here by fiannaFailMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Fuck you.

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