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India Brings Back Orbiting Satellite to Earth

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations-on-a-hard-job dept.

bharatm writes "In a pathbreaking event heralding its arrival as a space power with capability to recover an orbiting satellite, India today successfully brought back a spacecraft to earth, giving a new impetus to the proposed manned mission to space in the next decade."

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  1. And yet by antifoidulus · · Score: 1, Troll

    no mention on /. of China's newfound ability to shoot a satellite that is in orbit.

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    Monstar L
  2. Re:Feed your children India! by JT27278 · · Score: 1, Troll

    The same can (and has) been said to all nations that spend money on space travel.

    From "Whitey on the Moon" (1969) by The Last Poets:

    Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
    Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
    The price of food is goin' up,
    As if all that shit wasn't enough
    A rat done bit my sister Nell
    (and Whitey's on the moon)
    Her face an' arm began to swell.
    (but Whitey's on the moon)
    Was all that money I made last year
    (for Whitey on the moon?)
    How come there ain't no money here?
    (Whitey's on the moon!)...