Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Chandrayaan lifts off! Congratulations!




Congratulations to all team members involve in Successful launch of Chandrayaan-1. Congratulations to all Indians. We are in the list of Elite Lunar Club. I am taking proud to be an Indian. Congrats! Congrats! Congrats! Congrats!
Incredible achievement for our country which could not manufacture paper clips before 61 years!
On the surface it looks like ISRO’s achievement but every one of us has contributed.
There are taxpayers who have paid for our space programme. There are primary teachers who have taught these scientists when they were kids. There are bus drivers who have carried them in time. There are policeman who have kept their homes safe. There are doctors who have kept them healthy.

Aaj puraanee janzeeron-ko toD chuke hain
Kyaa dekhen us manzeel ko jo chhoD chuke hain
Chaand-ke dar par jaa pahoonchaa hai aaj zamaanaa
Naye jagat-se ham bhee naataa joD chuke hain

Nayaa umanga-hai, nayee tarangen, ab hai nayee jawanee,
Ham hindustaanee!


Today we’ve broken old chains. Why should we look back to the achievements of the past? At the doorstep of the Moon is the world. And we are with it.This is the new spirit, new imagination and new youth. We are Indians!

India launched its first unmanned moon mission on Wednesday following in the footsteps of rival China, as the emerging Asian power celebrated its space ambitions and scientific prowess.
Chandrayaan-1 (Moon vehicle), a cuboid spacecraft built by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) blasted off from a southern Indian space center shortly after dawn in a boost for the country's ambitions to gain more global space business.
Chinese astronauts were feted as national heroes last month after their country's first space walk, and India did not want to be left behind.
"What we have started is a remarkable journey," G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of ISRO, told reporters.
India's national television channels broadcast the event live. Some scientists thumped their chests, hugged each other and clapped as the rocket shot up into space.
“The launch was perfect and precise. The satellite has been placed in the earth orbit. With this, we have completed the first leg of the mission and it will take 15 days to reach the lunar orbit,” "Even rain god is very kind on us" Nair announced in the mission control centre.

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