Earlier this week, India joined an elite club when it successfully launched Rohit Sharma’s Test career into orbit. On a side note, we also launched the Mangalyaan mission, which will see an Indian orbiter make the trek to the Red Planet, Chattisga Mars. There are many things to celebrate about the Mangalyaan mission. It is the most ambitious thing ISRO has attempted since their 1992 attempt to get Indian students to remember the word “Sriharikota” in their history textbooks.

Affordable, beautiful, durable? $72 million for Mangalyaan sounds like a lot till you consider that it’s a fraction of what NASA paid, less than what Sahara paid for the Pune Warriors, and smaller than the budget of Gravity, which only pretended to go to space