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On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 India has successfully sent a rocket from an island in the Bay of Bengal reaching for planet mars. The mission’s objective was to explore the surface structure, morphology and mineralogy. Also, they wanted to see if they can communicate & navigate in space to let the rocket be able to survive and orbit around the earth (Mars Orbiter Mission, n.d.). On the other hand, India had another goal for the mission, which was a race against the Chinese, in other words, a cold war. Furthermore, according to Pallava Bagla (2013) in the article about ISRO to launch India’s first spacecraft to Mars, he mentioned, “There is a lot of national pride involved in this” which shows that India is trying to tell the world that they are a strong and very developed country? In this essay I am going to discuss the reasons why I support India’s space mission.
The first reason is that every country has the right to explore and discover new things in space, as the universe does not belong to anyone or to any country. India, just like any other country that has blasted a rocket to space has the developed technology and plenty of scientists that are educated professionals to do this kind of job. This was not an easy mission to do, as it required years of planning and calculating the distance, speed and the influence of the sun and other planets on the space rocket, in order for it be flawless to accomplish the mission. Dr.Radhakishnan Indian space research organization’s chairman stated that “This is a very complicated mission, but we have the capability to do it. We have developed new knowledge and we are very confident that we can achieve the navigation from earth to mars accurately and properly” (ISRO chief highly optimistic of...

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...aceful way. Because sometimes the only way to succeed and develop is to have a rival and try to win. In this case, it was china against India, both of them producing advanced space technology to reach mars.

Works Cited

ISRO: Mars Orbiter Mission. (n.d.) Retrieved January 5, 2014, from http://www.isro.org/mars/objectives.aspx Jason, B. (2013, November 5). ISRO to launch India’s first spacecraft to mars. The Guardian.
Retrieved from http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/india-mars-probe-launch-space

Meera, B. (2013, October 24). ISRO chief highly optimistic of its challenging Mars mission. The
Indian Express. Retrieved from http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/ISRO-chief-highly-optimistic-of-its-challenging-Mars-mission/2013/10/24/article1852489.ece

Population Of India. (n.d.) Retrieved January 6, 2014, from http://www.populationofindia.info/

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