The day when India engraved history in the field of space exploration was the day of launching “Chandrayan” - the first unmanned mission to the moon which was launched with the total budget of 46 billion euro by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) established in 1969. Chandrayan has been the first effort ever made by ISRO to send any object beyond the earth’s orbit.

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India has made its place in the global space research arena and has emerged as a superpower of information and technological advancements which have brought fame and recognition to the nation. ISRO, with its moon mission has attracted most people and scientists from NASA and ECA to look back and check the technological improvements with India. The Chandrayaan has come as a new ray of light which shall spread the information and technology developments throughout the country. Most people are thrilled and filled with joy looking at the great effort our scientists have put up. ISRO, has come up as a leading research organization and the most sought place for any space enthusiast.

The Asian Space Race has been embarked by the achievements most Asian countries have made through successful launch of their satellites and unmanned moon mission. If India gets success in this effort, then it will be competing with countries like China, United States and Japan who have covered some great distance in the space race age. India has issues with Russia and Japan both of which are prevailing powers of Asia and are setting missions up to send a man to the moon till 2020. India is also planning to launch the Chandrayan 2 with the larger budget of 47 billion Euros till 2015 for more exploration of the space and also for the social and industrial benefits. India already has 16 satellites that are supporting weather forecasting, remote education, earth observation, TV broadcasting and for healthcare.

Many other responses have been observed by different classes of the country. Those who are living below the poverty line feel that the launching of Chandrayan is just a wastage of money and rather the money should be used to exterminate poverty from the country while middle class people are aware of the booming affects of the launch.

Some great achievements by Asian countries in the space are:

§ In 1969, India established Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) and launched its first satellite in 1980 named Rohini and in 1984 Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to be sent to the space on the Soviet Spacecraft.

§ Japan launched “Hiten” lunar orbit in the year of 1990 and “Toyohiro Akiyama” a TV reporter was sent to the space.

§ China launched its first taikonaut in the year of 2003 and it shooted out its own first setalitte in 2007. Japan also launched an unmanned lunner orbit named Selene in the same year.

These countries are further planing to make new miracles in space explorations and India is setting up for the launch of the Chandrayaan 2 till the years 2012-2013

With the latest Indian achievement, all eyes have turned towards India and people are now interested to be a part of the great mission which the ISRO has done for the nation.