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India Plans Moon Mission by 2008
LPetrazickis writes "According to the Tribune, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has announced today that India will send a spacecraft to the moon by 2008. The Chandrayaan-I mission will showcase Indian achievements in science and technology to the world. Both European and Canadian Space Agencies have shown interest in the mission. SifyNews reports that 2008 was initially mispronounced as 1908. Today is the 56th anniversary of India's independence." Previous talk about this has come from the Indian space agency; this announcement from the Prime Minister seems to have more weight.
Imagine your tech support calls being rerouted to the moon.
Starlight glittered from the chrome horns as the pressurized bovine arced up and out of Earth's gravity well.
Captain Raj blniked away a tear as he watched the earth diminish in size from his viewing station within the left eyeball of the craft.
The udders steadily increasing delta V that eventually carried the metal cow and the Indians up and over the moon and then back to earth descending gently into a McDonalds parking lot.
They said they'll send a spacecraft to the Moon by 2008, not man.
Indeed. India has scores of mystics who walk around on the moon with their astral bodies every day, so that wouldn't be anything new. But bringing along a craft, now that's exciting!
Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!
India's Moon probe will be equipped with a record-breaking 100 robotic arms.
Scientifically, there's no reason you can't do this. The trick is to go at night.
The obvious drawback is they'll have to use the battery-powered kind of flashlight.
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