India's Mangalyaan only mission to reach Mars in 1st attempt
With the launch of â¹450-crore Mangalyaan mission on November 5, 2013, India became the only country to reach the Martian orbit on its maiden voyage. Mangalyaan, also Asia's first successful Mars mission, recently completed three years in orbit despite being designed to last six months. As of 2014, only 21 of the 51 previous attempts to reach Mars were successful.