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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.

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  1. LOL, Can you imagine it.. by Mark+Gillespie · · Score: -1, Troll

    Based on the engineering skills I have seen, it will be badly welded baked bean cans, and some dodgy wiring, perhaps an old 386 with the side casing missing at an Internet Cafe in Bangalore, as the mission control centre.

    1. Re:LOL, Can you imagine it.. by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Troll

      how about you shut the fuck up you useless call center dwelling curry muncher.

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  2. Infrastructure Please? by Nabusman · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've been in India for about a year now. These guys have horrible infrastructure: bad roads, horrible mass transport, not to mention spotty internet. Their education system is pathetic. Any task that involves the government (ie starting a business, importing something for use in a business) takes forever (despite all the bribes given). Yet these idiots are trying to put a man on the moon. Fix the basics first WTF are they doing?

  3. Space curry: food of the future by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    This is why there will be few Indian astronauts: you ever been cooped up in a spaceship with nothing to eat but vindaloo, and no open windows?