Universe Today
India achieved a remarkable feat earlier this week -- the nation became only one of a handful of countries to successfully
send a probe to Mars
. The $75 million mission has been hailed as an achievement by NASA and other space experts from around the world.
Just how remarkable is this bargain mission? As a tweet from travel writer Jon Tindale pointed out, MOM
cost less than the 2000 Gary Sinise movie Mission To Mars
. (Note that we came up with a different dollar figure below.)
Just for fun, we've compared MOM to several space movies below. All dollar figures are adjusted for inflation from budgets listed in the Internet Movie Database.
- Avatar
-
$263 million ($237 million in 2009 dollars)
- Wall-E
-
$199 million ($180 million in 2008 dollars)
- The Fifth Element
-
$138 million ($93 million in 1997 dollars)
- Mission to Mars
-
$124 million ($90 million in 2000 dollars)
- Elysium
-
$117 million ($115 million in 2013 dollars)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture:
$115 million ($35 million in 1979 dollars)
- Gravity
-
$102 million ($100 million in 2013 dollars)
- Apollo 13
-
$101.5 million ($62 million in 1995 dollars)
- Dune (1984)
-
$92 million ($40 million in 1984 dollars)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
-
$76 million ($19.4 million in 1977 dollars)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
-
$72 million ($10.5 million in 1968 dollars)
Mars Orbiter Mission: $70 million (2014 dollars)
- The Right Stuff
-
$65 million ($27 million in 1983 dollars)
- Serenity
-
$49 million ($40 million in 2005 dollars)
- Star Wars (1977)
-
$43 million ($11 million in 1977 dollars)
- Outland
-
$42 million ($16 million in 1981 dollars)
Alien:
$36 million ($11 million in 1979 dollars)
- War of the Worlds (1953)
-
$18 million ($2 million in 1953 dollars)
- Silent Running
-
$6.2 million ($1.1 million in 1972 dollars)
- Moon
-
$5.5 million ($5 million in 2009 dollars)
- Apollo 18
-
$5.3 million ($5 million in 2011 dollars)