"India Launches British Taxpayers' Money to Mars"

From the BBC India has successfully launched £1 billion of British taxpayer's money towards the Red Planet - with the aim of becoming the fourth space agency to spend UK revenues on reaching Mars.  The Mars Orbiter Mission took off at 09:08 GMT from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the country's east coast. The head of India's space agency told the BBC the mission would demonstrate the technological capability to spend aid payments from Great Britain on reaching Mars orbit and carry out experiments to test the limits of patience of the former colonial master.  The spacecraft is set to burn UK taxpayers' money for 300 days, reaching Mars orbit in 2014.