This is indeed and unique and great milestone achieved. Future human travel to mars can now be perfected thru the lessons learned from this mission. Mars being bigger than moon must have been a very difficult mission to attempt a SOFT LANDING. Cudoos to NASA and their scientist.
I hope India/ISRO can join hands with USA/NASA and attempt more such missions to cut costs and learn crucial technologies in the process.
I wish Chandrayan mission of India to be a big success too.
With India's low cost lauch and any new technology learnt in the process of coop with US, the benefit of cost and tech can be passed on to other developing countires and poor nations.
We definitely need to look up to space for more and who knows, good sense will prevail when science unites every one on our good old EARTH.
