Apparently, inexpensive clothing for U.S. retailers isn't the only thing India can make on the cheap. The country's space agency just put a spacecraft into orbit around Mars for less money than Hollywood spent on a movie about make-believe space travel.
India spent only $74 million on its successful journey to the Red Planet, a paltry sum compared to the $671 million U.S. taxpayers ponied up for its Maven satellite or the $200 million spent by the European Space Agency's Mars mission more than a decade ago. As CNNMoney reports, India's Prime Minister pointed out the movie "Gravity," at $100 million, was more expensive to get off the ground.
And, India got their spacecraft into orbit around Mars on the first try, making it the first country to achieve that distinction.
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