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  Mars Orbiter Mission Making Its Way to Mars India pulled off an engineering triumph when its scientists successfully placed the Mangalyaan in the Mars' orbit, propelling the country into a select club of interplanetary exploring nations in the shortest time and at the lowest cost.   It was a moment of glory.   It was the coming of age of India's technological prowess.   It was an achievement of astronomical proportions!   Scientists called it Mars Orbit Insertion.   It was the most challenging milestone of India's first interplanetary mission-Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) attempting to orbit a spacecraft around this tiny red dot in the sky on 24th September, 2014. With 24 minutes of firing of the Liquid engine, ISRO'S Mars Orbiter Mission took India into a Martian orbit   Yes, India has done it.   So far only the USA, USSR/Russia and the European Space agency have had the distinction of orbiting a spacecraft around Mar...

  Dream, Believe, Achieve – The Spirit of Youth Empowerment             The ignited mind of the youth is the most powerful resource on the earth. The youth power, if properly directed and controlled, could bring about transformation in humans for its progress.   Friends, let me share with you a beautiful experience when I visited Greece in April 2007. I was negotiating and climbing towards Acropolis mountains top in Athens and came across a group of 150 Greek students. They threw a spontaneous smile on me, the teachers came forward and introduced the students. They said they were very happy to see the Indian president and that the children would like to hear a few words from him.   My mind at that time was thinking about the great personalities the land of Greece had given to the world: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The words of Plato were ringing in my mind when I was young students. Plato said 2400 years ...