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India and US to Cooperate in Space Exploration

Posted by Zonk on from the friends-offworld-and-on dept.

p1234 writes "India and the US plan to cooperate in the exploration and use of outer space. India's first mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1, is scheduled to be launched later this year. This is the culmination of long-term planning on both sides of the Atlantic. Apart from India's moon mission, Nair said a probe of Mars by India was very much on the agenda.'Our scientific community would like to see what new things we can find. It is not just for the sake of sending a probe to Mars. Yes, we have an agenda by 2012, by then we should have a Mars mission.'"

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  1. Cooperation? by Brian+Gordon · · Score: 3, Funny

    India gets permission to use our moon landing sets in the American desert far from prying eyes :)

    1. Re:Cooperation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      India gets permission to use our moon landing sets in the American desert far from prying eyes :)
      Yep you know the one, right next to the secret government weather control complex and the Roswell flying saucer testing facility.
    2. Re:Cooperation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      The Indian version will be a musical.

  2. Call centers in space... by owlnation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we are outsourcing NASA?

    1. Re:Call centers in space... by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Funny
      "Bangalore, we have a problem..."

    2. Re:Call centers in space... by supremebob · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...and YES, we already tried rebooting it!

  3. It's just a plan to get CHEAP astronauts! by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    -1 troll

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  4. Re:NASA Offshoring? by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now that's what I call REAL offshoring!

    I coineth a new term: "Moonshoring"

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  5. Re:It is good. by Tablizer · · Score: 1, Funny

    If India buys some technology and know how from USA

    But they'll invent curry-in-a-tube.

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  6. Astronauts have had it too good & expect too m by walterbyrd · · Score: 2, Funny

    They expect their employers to train them, then they expect these huge salaries starting from their first day in outer space.

    NASA really had no choice. Either NASA had to get around the H1-B laws, or hire illegal alian astronuts. And Sigourney Weaver advised against that.

  7. Re:Jokes by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    'both sides of the Atlantic'. It really makes me wonder where India borders the Atlantic...

    The borders have been offshored too.

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  8. Re:mutual benefit? by maxume · · Score: 2, Funny

    Correctin spalling on /./

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  9. Re:Of course there will cooperation. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Huh??? How is that "supplying" anything? Money is just pieces of paper. You can indefinitely print them, with no limit. It seems that you missed the entire currency debate during the end of the Stone Age.
  10. Re:This is geopolitics 101 by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oil is a fungible resource. If Iran won't sell to them, someone else will.

    How dare you accuse other countries of infecting our oil with mold!

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