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An Indian On the Moon By 2020

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the joining-the-club dept.

turgid writes, "The Hindustan Times reports that the Indian Space Research Organization plans to land an Indian on the Moon by 2020. First, experiments will be conducted to launch, orbit, and recover a capsule. Plans are to launch an Indian into space in 2014. Manned orbital missions will be launched, initially for a day, but eventually lasting a week or more. Expeditions to the Moon are expected to last 15 days to a month." The article doesn't estimate the cost of such a program. The US Apollo program cost about $135 billion (in 2006 dollars), according to Wikipedia.

3 of 299 comments (clear)

  1. First Lunar Casino by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... oh, you meant the other kind

  2. Americans beaten to space again by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Americans haven't been to the Moon in decades. I think we could possibly recruit Indians for space travel here in the U.S., but I think they'd have reservations.

  3. I can just hear it... by steevo.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Thiruvananthapuram, we are having a problem!"