India has launched its first mission to Mars from the Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh. Mangalyaan, which means "Mars craft" in Hindi, lifted off at 2:38 pm from Sriharikota, 80 kilometres from Chennai.ndia becomes only the fourth country or group of countries to reach the Red Planet, after the Soviet Union, United States and Europe. <br /> <br />For more videos go to http://www.youtube.com/tv9gujarat <br />Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/gujarattv9 <br />Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Tv9Gujarat