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MUMBAI: Here's a secret behind the success of India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) that only two people — and not even the Prime Minister — knew. 

During every critical manoeuvre of the spacecraft, mission director S Arunan would slip out of the control room and stand in silence. 

The only other person who knew this routine was then Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan. 

"Call it superstition, but I believe that it brought us luck," Arunan told TOI. 

(the times of india 6-1-2014)