So I found an article on a spacecraft that was aiming towards landing on Mars here: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-india-spacecraft-mars.html
I thought that this was very neat because Mars has sparked up a lot of interest recently with the many discoveries from the Curiosity rover and now we have more spacecrafts going to research on the red planet and hopefully discover traces of ancient life
The particular thing about this article was that it was a spacecraft from India. This is the first I've heard that a country not as developed as our North American and European counterparts have had a very successful inter-planetary journey.
This mission is also very low cost, only approximately 70 million USD as compared to the one launched from NASA at a substantially larger cost of 671 million USD
This shows that poorer, struggling countries can also manage to create cheaper, efficient products that can achieve close to the same caliber as more expensive and high tech ones from NASA.
Below is an image of the Indian spacecraft that was launched in November of 2013
