Former ISRO chairman Dr. K. Radhakrishnan has said the Mangalyaan mission had stirred a lot of interest among the youngsters as they appreciated the organization's work through their messages on social media.
Dr. Radhakrishnan stressed that children should be taught science in such a way that they take it up as an activity and added that the lesson from the Mangalyaan mission had been to accept failure and analyze the reason behind it.
"The first lesson is to accept failure because failure is a common phenomenon in space mission. We do not point fingers at any person for failure, rather we analyze the issue behind the failure. The second lesson we follow is to learn from the success and analyze what made it a failure," he said while speaking at the 92nd Founder's Day celebration of Karnataka Bank yesterday.
The Mars Orbiter Mission affectionately called 'MOM' was India's first inter-planetary mission. It was launched on November 5, 2013, from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.