Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations — NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s — had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt.
India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, India’s space organization, ISRO, had a budget of $74 million, less than the movie “The Martian”
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