Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission

Re:Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission by DanBC on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @06:56AM (#6674564)

> How many countries achieve this after having these many "core" problems.

It is a great feat! It's confusing to me how India can plan something like this, but cannot fix the problem of buying train tickets. I've heard that the queues can be quite long.

But it is exciting to see India sending things into space.

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Re:Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission by pagade on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @07:12AM (#6674611)

If you meant buying online, the problem was solved long back.. https://www.irctc.co.in/

Believe me the website works and is used by millions..

Queues still remain long due to lack of computer literacy and reach of internet..

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Re:Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission by aks314 on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @08:29AM (#6674887)

While they are doing a better job on this, it still crashes @ 10am daily - right around the emergency quota for the day starts. They also need daily maintenance for an hour or so.

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Re:Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission by yashg on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @04:08PM (#6685518)

And not to mention it is India's largest ecommerce site :)

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