<p class="title">In what appears to be a major gaffe, the poster of Ekta Kapoor's recently announced web series "M.O.M - Mission Over Mars" inspired by the story the women behind India's successful Mangalyaan mission features the wrong space rocket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a tweet last week, Kapoor announced the launch of the show that revolves around the story of four women scientists who were involved in India's Mars Orbiter Mission launched in 2013.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Actors Sakshi Tanwar, Mona Singh, Nidhi Singh and Palomi Ghosh star in the show for ALT Balaji streaming platform.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The poster features what appears to be a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle, superimposed with the Indian flag.</p>.<p class="bodytext">ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan, on the other hand, was launched aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket C25.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Some Twitter users spotted the gaffe and criticised the showrunners' apparent lack of research into the subject before the poster launch.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The fact that the poster uses the wrong rocket is already a big flag," one user tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Could it be that they didn't have a single expert as a consultant for this series?" another user wrote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In her tweet on June 6, Kapoor wrote that she had decided to make the show two-and-half years ago when she chanced upon the "amazing story about women in Indian science."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This show is on the women who sent the mission on Mars partly fictional keeping in mind the sacrosanct nature of ISRO," she wrote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to her tweet, the show was being presented after "millions of meetings with ISRO" and would maintain a "certain amount of sacrosanct secrecy".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The series is "part-fiction, part real story" based on the achievements of all the women in Indian science.</p>.<p class="bodytext">'MOM' was India's first interplanetary mission. The launch made ISRO the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India is also the first nation in the world to have successfully placed a probe in Mars orbit in its first attempt. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Later on Wednesday, ALTBalaji said the image of rocket used in the poster of their upcoming web series "M.O.M - Mission Over Mars" was taken for "representation purposes purely".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"To avoid giving an incorrect impression that this is a docu-drama, we have chosen not to use actual names of either the people or agencies involved. This imagery was taken for representation purposes purely, as a part of which, publicity material of the show has its own sensibilities to consider," the statement from ALTBalaji read.</p>
<p class="title">In what appears to be a major gaffe, the poster of Ekta Kapoor's recently announced web series "M.O.M - Mission Over Mars" inspired by the story the women behind India's successful Mangalyaan mission features the wrong space rocket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In a tweet last week, Kapoor announced the launch of the show that revolves around the story of four women scientists who were involved in India's Mars Orbiter Mission launched in 2013.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Actors Sakshi Tanwar, Mona Singh, Nidhi Singh and Palomi Ghosh star in the show for ALT Balaji streaming platform.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The poster features what appears to be a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle, superimposed with the Indian flag.</p>.<p class="bodytext">ISRO's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan, on the other hand, was launched aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket C25.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Some Twitter users spotted the gaffe and criticised the showrunners' apparent lack of research into the subject before the poster launch.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The fact that the poster uses the wrong rocket is already a big flag," one user tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Could it be that they didn't have a single expert as a consultant for this series?" another user wrote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In her tweet on June 6, Kapoor wrote that she had decided to make the show two-and-half years ago when she chanced upon the "amazing story about women in Indian science."</p>.<p class="bodytext">"This show is on the women who sent the mission on Mars partly fictional keeping in mind the sacrosanct nature of ISRO," she wrote.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to her tweet, the show was being presented after "millions of meetings with ISRO" and would maintain a "certain amount of sacrosanct secrecy".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The series is "part-fiction, part real story" based on the achievements of all the women in Indian science.</p>.<p class="bodytext">'MOM' was India's first interplanetary mission. The launch made ISRO the fourth space agency to reach Mars, after Roscosmos, NASA, and the European Space Agency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">India is also the first nation in the world to have successfully placed a probe in Mars orbit in its first attempt. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Later on Wednesday, ALTBalaji said the image of rocket used in the poster of their upcoming web series "M.O.M - Mission Over Mars" was taken for "representation purposes purely".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"To avoid giving an incorrect impression that this is a docu-drama, we have chosen not to use actual names of either the people or agencies involved. This imagery was taken for representation purposes purely, as a part of which, publicity material of the show has its own sensibilities to consider," the statement from ALTBalaji read.</p>