Great India Kissed the Moon

The Indian tricolour marked its presence on the moon on Friday night after having flown 3,86,000km from the earth. The timing of this proud
moment had been specially designed to coincide with Children's Day.

The United States, the former Soviet Union and the European Space Agency comprising 17 countries already have their flags on the moon.

Chandrayaan-1 enters lunar orbit successfully

After two weeks of journey India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 entered the lunar orbit on Saturday (Nov. 08, 2008) evening. It started at 16:50 hrs IST and within 14 minutes, it the entered lunar orbit. It is now 504 km from Moon. ISRO says the most critical operation is successful. With this development, India's moon mission has been declared successful.For detail news visit : http://www.chandrayaan-i.com/news/news.html?tid=11082008