India's Mission to Moon : Step 1 Successfull !

Hello Humanoids . Today , on 22nd October 2008 at 6:22 A.M, to be precise , the rocket PSLV-C11 or Chandrayaan-1 was launched by a team of India scientists of ISRO at ISRO owned Satish Dhawan Space Centre .It took 18 minutes for the space craft to reach the Earth's orbit , everything went as they planned.

Here is the launching video :



Today was a historic day , lets take a look at some of the FAQs

Is the Chandrayaan-1 ( the spacecraft ) going to the Moon directly ?

Chandrayaan-1 will orbit the Earth till November 7 and on November 8 it will start its journey towards moon .


Here are some important things you should know , via IbnLive.com

At the earliest possible opportunity the spacecraft that will orbit 100 km above the surface of the moon will drop its Moon Impact Probe (MIP) which will land on the lunar surface carrying India's flag, among many scientific instruments. After that, the spacecraft will also activate its cameras and other instruments on board.

Chandrayaan-1 will orbit the moon for two years. It carries 11 experimental payloads, five Indian and six from abroad - the two from NASA, three from the European Space Agency (ESA) and one from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

What are the objective (s) of this mission ?

"Chandrayaan-1 aims to achieve these objectives through high resolution of the moon in the visible, near infrared, microwave and x-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum," mission director M. Annadurai told IANS.

A three-dimensional atlas of the lunar surface and chemical mapping of the entire lunar surface are the other objectives of the mission.

Should Team India be proud ?

Yes since India is the 5th country after U.S.A , USSR,Japan and China .

I saw a news channel few minutes back and a reporter asked " IIT  ( which is the MIT of India )  has no participation in this mission , which is unthinkable as the brightest brains of India are from IIT "  , the reply came " Because they are just worried about getting the money , they just missed the ultimate satisfaction of making history " .

Kudos to the scientists who spent days and night on this mission ,  they must be pretty satisifed as they spent most of the time for the welfare of the country , its because of people like these a country progresses .

Take Care ,

Beijing : Mission Successful ! Watch the Closing Ceremony !

Hello humanoids . I must say job well done China ! A breathtaking opening ceremony and now a marvelous closing ceremony . The ceremony started with fireworks , the Premier of China was there and so was their special guest : The IOA president . The ceremony was was pretty calm and composed . They had various formations and every dance had a meaning : it either depicted a story or had a read life influence . The most attractive part was the use of lights , brilliant !

Then came the Olympians , i.e. the athletes,etc , waving their flags proudly , they would look back when they prepared for the Beijing Olympics and when it is over they would surely be proud of themselves .

Lastly but not the least they had a song " Beijing , Beijing " , people were hanging in air , and special appearance was made by Jackie Chan who sang a song to my utter surprise :O There were few more singers who were definitely unknown to me but they did sing well actually .

And not to forget the last part of closing ceremony , the torch was handed to London as they will hold the next olympics in 2012 . The people from London were : David Beckham who came on a double decker bus ( this is how we call a bus which has another floor here in India ) , and as far as i know he even did kick a ball and i came to know the David Beckham is more famous than any other star or celeb in China , then there was Leona Lewis singing here way through, and so were the Led Zeppelin legend and the guitar lord Page were present too .

So that was a brieft summary of the Closing Ceremony , the people of Chine deserve a round of applause for whatever they have done to achieve such a successful Olympic game .

Now lets see how London prepares itself till 2012 , Good luck London !

Ah , i forgot about the main part .

Those who missed the closing ceremony and don't trust the description i wrote above can see the video below :

UPDATE : The video has been updated and for your information this is the official Youtube Closing Ceremony Video :




Embedding courtesy of Dintillion

Zai jian ( Zai jian means " Bye " in English ;)

Take care,