ISRO s maiden interplanetary mission - the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) - has passed four years orbiting the Red Planet. Launched on November 5, 2013, the mission successfully placed itself into Martian Orbit on September 24, 2014 in its first attempt. Taking to microblogging website twitter, the space agency tweeted, “It s been 4 years since I am around! Thank you for your love and support”. The tweet included an image taken by the orbiter of Olympus Mons - the largest known volcano of the so
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Dubai: Ahead of the UAE’s Mars Mission, an Indian expat in Dubai is over the moon. His collection of stamps, issued in 1964, show the country’s vision about its space missions that became real decades after its formation.
Nandlal Hiranand Mirchandani, who runs a real estate and catering businesses, is proud that his huge collection of postage stamps includes a series of stamps issued by the then Dubai Ruler late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum to mark international outer space achievements.
The stamps commemorated American astronauts’ first successful trip to outer space, under the theme ‘Honouring Astronauts.’
One of those stamps had hit the headlines in 2016 when His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, tweeted its image on the occasion of the UAE Space Agency’s second anniversary.