Click to play videoNew Delhi: India’s mission to the moon Chandrayaan's flight has become symbolic of India's rise as a space power.
However, someone is out there to pull it down.
China has pressed the panic button. It is the only nation to have criticized India's moon mission.
It has even gone to the extent to saying that Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) exaggerated the capability of the mission.
The Chinese do have reasons to be worried.
It wants to become the next space super power with an ambitious lunar project.
China has spent twice than India and started before India; however, they aren't far ahead.
China's tryst with moon began in 2007 with its first moon orbiter Chang'e I. In 2008 space walk mission Shenzhou 7 was initiated and has plans for 2018 Chinese man on the moon and ultimately in 2012, a lunar rover has been scheduled.
Meanwhile, when China launches its lunar rover in 2012, that is when India will catch up.
Even ISRO plans to launch its moon rover Chandrayaan 2 in 2012.
Not just the Chinese, Chandrayaan even sent tremors across space programme's undisputed leader.
America's position came under threat. Americans have called their space programs complacent, sloppy and at times nothing more than media hype.
In fact, Chandrayaan was the only Indian achievement the new US President-elect Barack Obama took notice of to drive home a point.
Obama says, "With India's launch of its first unmanned lunar spacecraft, we are reminded just how urgently the United States must revitalize its space program if we are to remain the undisputed leader in space, science, and technology.
Apparently, the Apollo déjà vu clearly have not seemed to help. The American space leadership dates back to the first step on the moon but was the step ever taken?
Many say it was but in a studio in Hollywood.
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