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Chandrayaan-1 took off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota just hours ago (0052 GMT, or 8:52pm Eastern Time); marking the beginning of the first lunar mission for India. The craft was in orbit within about 19 minutes and will reach the Moon and go into orbit there in about fifteen days. India started its space program in 1963 and has developed its own satellites and launch vehicles, but still has a long way to go to catch up with other countries such as China, the United States, the European Space Agency and Russia, who are already well established. Even Japan is looking ahead, hoping to have an astronaut on the Moon by 2020; the first Japanese lunar probe, Kaguya, was launched last September.
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