Chandrayaan-I mission a great success: Kalam

"For a first launch, its a great success," he said on the sidelines of a function here.
He said Chandrayaan-I successfully orbited the earth and then the moon and ten instruments on board had sent data for ten months.

Kalam pointed out that ISRO had succeeded in detaching the moon impact probe and then crashing it on the moon's surface. These factors indicated that the mission has been completed, he opined.