India Ends Russian Space Partnership and Will Land On the Moon Alone

An anonymous reader writes: The Russian space program has experienced numerous accidents and delays recently, leading Indian officials to call into question its long term viability. Now India has decided to pull out of a partnership with Russia for a mission to the moon. According to the Examiner: "Previously, India was scheduled to launch a Russian lander on one of its rockets and send it to the lunar South Pole. Now, according to a story in Russia and India Report, India will go it alone, building its own lander to touch down on the lunar surface within the next few years.

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Russia can't launch a space satellite

[Anonymous Coward]

They do, however, have a President who can ride shirtless on the back of grizzly bear.

Re:Twenty five years of science destruction...

[tuxgeek]

I occasionally work with Russians here in Alaska.
To their credit, they are very hard workers.

First thing I ask of them is "say moose and squirrel"