印度飞船进入火星轨道,领先亚洲

India wins Asia's Marsrace as spacecraft enters orbit

印度飞船进入火星轨道，领先亚洲

India won Asia's race to Mars on Wednesdaywhen its unmanned Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully enteRed the Red Planet'sorbit after a 10-month journey on a tiny budget

经过10个月飞行后，周三，印度小预算的飞船进入了火星轨道，领先亚洲。

Scientists at mission control let up a wildcheer as the gold-coloured craft manoeuvred into the planet's orbit at 8:02am(0232 GMT) following a 660-million kilometre (410-million mile) voyage.

在经历了66000万公里的飞行后，这艘金色的飞船进入了火星轨道，控制中心的科学家们欢呼雀跃。

"History has been created. We havedared to reach out into the unknown and have achieved the nearimpossible," a jubilant Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the IndianSpace Research Organisation's (ISRO) base near Bangalore.

“我们创造了历史。我们勇于深入未知并创造了不可能，”总理莫迪在班加罗尔附近的印度空间研究组织里开心的说道。

"The success of our space programme isa shining symbol of what we are capable of as a nation," Modi said,grinning broadly and hugging the ISRO's chairman.

“空间项目的成功证明了印度作为一个国家所具备的能力，”莫迪说，他笑着并拥抱了该机构的主席。

India has been trying to keep up withneighbouring giant China, which has poured billions of dollars into itsprogramme and plans to build a manned space station by the end of the decade.

印度一直在追赶邻国中国，中国花费巨资发展的自己的空间项目，并且计划在未来几年建成载人空间站。