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India's Mars Mission Back On Track After Brief Hiccup
New submitter rahultyagi writes "After running into some problems in its fourth orbit-raising maneuver two days ago, Mangalyaan (India's Mars Orbiter Mission) seems to be back on track now. A supplementary burn lasting ~304 seconds was completed today, raising the apogee of MOM to 118,642 km — the intended apogee after the original maneuver. After the glitch two days ago, ISRO again seems to be on track to become the first entity to have a successful Mars mission on its first attempt. Though, of course, there are quite a few things that might still go wrong before this can be called a successful mission. Let's all hope that a year from now, we are all celebrating the entry of another nation into the small club capable of successful interplanetary missions."
Of course the closet racists won't admit that there can be any other possible group association other than race...
So true. I swear if the invasion of Pearl Harbour happened now people would be saying how wrong and racist it would be to attack Japan, and that they had as much right to Hawaii as America.