Indians are well known to get best work done at cheapest rates, something similar was visible in the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) destination Mars mission's Mangalyaan satellite.

People all over the world are not only dumbstruck at the low cost of India's Mars Orbiter mission but also highly surprised as to how India's national space agency managed such a remarkable achievement in its very first attempt when nearly half of the 40 Mars missions launched around the world have failed.

Mangalyaan's mission to Mars cost India approximately $67 million, which is much less than the cost of NASA MAVEN mission, launched ten months back. Such a low budget undoubtedly made it the lowest-cost inter-planetary mission ever to be undertaken till date.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his recent visit to India's rocket port in June, said, "The Hollywood movie Gravity cost more than our Mars mission - this is a great achievement".

NASA's latest mission to Mars called MAVEN, which incidentally reached the Red Planet on Monday ahead of the Indian satellite, costs ten times more. The earlier mission of rover Curiosity that is roaming on the surface of Mars and is carrying out experiments there incurred a cost of over a whopping 2 billion dollars.

K Radhakrishnan, Chairman of ISRO, clarified in a statement that though it is a cheap mission but no compromises have been made. He said that they did this mission in two years and ground testing has helped.