India Debating Manned Space Flight

alphakappa writes "India's moon mission and other space programs have been covered before on Slashdot. India is now debating sending a manned space mission and has acknowledged it's technological preparedness to do so in the next 6-7 years if given the go-ahead. The issues being debated before starting work on the mission include cost-benefit and other space priorities. (These missions also play host to international experiments) What does the general slashdot crowd think of these space plans?"

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Does Anyone else have this image.

[jellomizer]

With Hundreds of Indians attached to the spacecraft in anyways they can fit in hanging off the edges blasing into space?

Re:not trying to be flamebait but

[jellomizer]

Because the government can outsouce it launches to save money.

Easy solution

[Gzip Christ]

The issues being debated before starting work on the mission include cost-benefit and other space priorities.

The obvious solution is to cut costs by outsourcing to India. I would estimate that project costs can be cut by 30% by outsourcing to India. The real benefit is that because they are already in India, this can be done recursively. So they will save 30% by outsourcing to India the first time, then another 30% by outsourcing a second time, and so on and so forth until the actual cost approaches zero.

Re:Here's a q

[LiquidCoooled]

They manage to fit the American ego in there, so I don't see why not.

Role Reversal

[clinko]

I bet they do it about 25% of the price.

Although they'll have to outsource to Americans that used to work at NASA

NASA: "Hello? This is Gutmar."

INDIA: "Yeah, 'Gutmar', your real name is something like 'David' or 'Paul' isn't it? Damned Americans taking our jobs."

NASA: "My Friend, I cannot tell you where I am. It is not our policy My Friend."

Re:Canadians in Space

[El]

Canada is obviously delaying putting people into space until after they develop a reliable method for brewing beer in zero gravity...