How India mounted the worlds cheapest mission to Mars

September 24, 2014 12:01

If India's Mangalyaan space probe successfully enters an orbit around Mars on Wednesday, the country will have made history -- twice.

It will be the only nation so far to reach Mars on its first attempt.

It will also have spent the least amount of money to do so.

India's Mars mission has a price tag of about $74 million, a fraction of the $671 million cost of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's latest Mars program.

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