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Planning Phase Complete For Indian Moon Mission
alphakappa writes "According to news reports, India's low-cost moon mission -- Chandrayan -- has completed its planning phase and will be deployed in 2007-2008 as planned. The interesting aspect is that the entire mission is expected to cost only around USD 88 million. How do you think space technology will change as a result of these low cost missions, satellites and space vehicles?"
This is the finest news to come out of India since my job went there, lol.
They will outsource the whole project to themselves...
Lost cost space;
Some Indian engineer will confuse grams for Tola's and the thing will auger into the moon at 68.0e4 kph.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
I think it'll get cheaper.
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You mean, they'll send UN officials to the moon?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Maybe NASA needs to closely follow this development. Political consideration aside that is, if they want to consider methods for cost-effective of exploring the Final Frontier.
I mean, they've outsourced all sorts of IT and Tech-related jobs to India, why not also the various NASA Space Programs, at least the small but expensive components.
Will sys-admin for food
1) Go to space
2) Land on the Moon
3) Go back to Earth
There, I finished planning-phase of my personal lunar-mission. Really, it's not that hard.
I wonder that is the fourth step "Profit!"?
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You could get one of the following for 88 mill:
2904 full size 4WD pickup trucks
8800-1760 houses (depending on where you live, of course)
176000 TV's
17600 snowmobiles
4400000 music CD's
3520 university educations (in the US. In some countries uni.educations is free, then the money would be used for beer.)
44 Lear Jet airplane
88088 Rubber ducks (Now on sale)
1 Bush-for-president campaign...
Nahhh...I think I still whould go for the Moon...
This is actually a program secretly funded by the evil Indian Software companies to quickly get Indian developers flown cheap to US companies like Google setting up offshore research centers on the moon. :-P
- cnb
Dude, everyone knows the moon is made of panir!
I am suggesting to change the project name from chandrayan to search for US flag.
" Britain used WWI to do exactly the same thing"
I knew WW1 to be an evil imperialist plot created by Britain somehow, organised by the King contacting his cousins the Kaiser and the Tsar, no doubtl
Don't let anybody say I wasn't supportive of this mission.
Here's to India!
May your best initial efforts be equally as successful as the first Apollo mission!
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
Should'nt they be fighting over slaves, and rushing to dig gold, and claim land, like US did, 50 years after the independnce?
apu contacted for hazardous mission.
all pork rinds 20% off.
Since there's about 1.1 billion indians, they could easily get to the moon about 6 times if they just stood on each others heads.. Pretty low cost! :)