Our baby is on way to moon: Chandrayaan project director
Some were eloquent, others struggled for words and yet others preferred one liners to describe the success of their years of hard work as the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft soared into skies on Wednesday morning making India a member of the elite club of countries probing the moon.
"It’s a historic moment," said Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G Madhavan Nair.
"Our baby is on way to the moon," said Chandrayaan project director Mylswamy Annadurai.
"Words don’t come," said George Koshy, director of ISRO Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad.
Here are the quotes from top ISRO scientists after the spacecraft was placed in its orbit, a little over 18 minutes after a "perfect, textbook, beautiful" launch from this spaceport off the Andhra Pradesh coast, 80 km from Tamil Nadu capital Chennai.