News India Live reporting: India successfully launches Mangalyaan to Mars, goes into Earth's orbit

Live reporting: India successfully launches Mangalyaan to Mars, goes into Earth's orbit

Sriharikota(AP): India today put its first confident foot forward in inter-planetary travel when it successfully launched the Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission) into Earth's orbit with old workhorse PSLV C-25 doing a perfect liftoff, putting the







Indian Space Research Organisation scientists clapped as Mission Control announced that the Mangalyaan was now  orbiting the Earth.

Thishistoric mission to Mars was ISRO's first-ever launch outside the Earth's sphere of influence in its 44-year-long history.
 

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