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The Prime Minister of India Narendran Modi while congratulating ISRO ( he was at the Center ) invoked a beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore...

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

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The Prime Minister of India Narendran Modi while congratulating ISRO ( he was at the Center ) invoked a beautiful poem by Rabindranath Tagore...

Congratulations! India deserves to be proud of their achievement.

Now let's hope that all of the probes currently orbiting Mars, new arrivals and all, are well placed to collect whatever data that they can as comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring makes its close aproach with Mars on October 19th.

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The first photos will be released in a few hours, before that, I would like to thank everyone here at KSP forums, ( especially Kryten ) you guys are an amazing bunch of people who care about Space Exploration and Science. When I joined the Forums last year and started this Thread, I was worried about people commenting on poverty and how we shouldn't be involved in Space exploration; You guys have proved me wrong ! Thank you !! I hope that this attitude will continue for as long as we all play KSP :)

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Congratulations, ISRO and all India - you have proved to yourself that you can achieve great things. By your hard work and dedication you send your own satellite on your own rocket to orbit Mangala. This is truly a great day :) I've heard that even China congratulated you this achievement and you damn deserve it.

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It really makes me happy to see such enthusiasm - I mean, PM himself was in the mission control to deliver a speech and congratulate the scientists their hard work. There's some of the old Space Race spirit in here, rarely to be seen in NASA or ESA activites which produce wonderful data but alas don't really interest the public that much. Let's hope that this will inspire more people to take interest in aerospace and space exploration.

Go India! :)

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Very, VERY proud of India for achieving this feat of engineering. More countries doing science and space is never a bad thing and very glad that NASA, ESA and even China have gotten aboard and celebrated your success. I was actually visiting India when the probe was launched, a couple of my friends joked about it but I guess you showed them.

Good on ya!!!

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I was sort of away from the forums but I did keep up with the insertion. Congratulations to ISRO for this remarkable achievement!! Proud of your engineers and scientists, Tech Support.

The following is about a point Tech Support touched (about space programs and poverty) and may be off-topic. Feel free to skip it.

When I joined the Forums last year and started this Thread, I was worried about people commenting on poverty and how we shouldn't be involved in Space exploration; You guys have proved me wrong ! Thank you !! I hope that this attitude will continue for as long as we all play KSP :)

I think the poverty question is valid, and it can lead to an interesting debate. I can think of arguments for and against having a space program when there is so much poverty. By the way, I speak as a citizen of another country which has a lot of poverty: I'm Mexican.

In reality this question goes so much beyond just space programs and specific countries. I'm an astronomer and I've often been asked how do we justify spending billions in building huge telescopes when there are, for instance, millions starving in Africa. Astronomy doesn't directly improve the quality of life of people around the world. So I think it's a valid moral question to raise, and I've seen it pop up in discussions many times.

The most satisfying answer I've read is the following. There are two ways to make the world a better place: 1) reduce the suck; 2) increase the awesome. In other words, while it's important to improve the living conditions of those less privileged around the world, it's also important to promote human activities that are done out of passion and that give people things to dream about and provide sources of awe and admiration. These activities keep the human spirit going. What's the point of having well-fed, healthy, long-living individuals if they have nothing to dream about, no awe-inspiring things to give them a reason to work passionately? Space programs are one such thing, in my opinion. So are astronomy, poetry, pure mathematics, music, etc.

If you allow me saying it, though, India does have to address the severe poverty problem it faces. But it doesn't have to be at the expense of its space program. Keeping it will inspire many future generations of scientists and engineers and give the general public a reason to dream on. And I'm sure there are many other budgetary items that can go before the space program.

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