HOW DOES INDIA GET TOTHE MOON BEFORE CHINA

PLEASE HELP ME TO UNDER STAND

1) This mission was done with a budget of $83 million, out of a total Indian economy of over $1.2 trillion. If this was used towards poverty alleviation, this would have been less than a drop in the bucket. Used to launch a space mission, this is an inspirational and aspirational move.

2) The success of this mission will generate a lot of commercial satellite launch business for India, easily more than the $83 million that this mission cost.

3) A lot of Indian kids move to commercial careers after university, away from the Science/Tech careers of their educational backgrounds. This will serve to motivate quite a few bright kids to develop a career in Science/Tech.

1. information about moon and its resources are a closely guarded secret by the countries which have traveled there. so “real’ info is still needed by india for expanding its knowledge horizon.

2. given the energy security scare thw world is going through, fusion is one of the options the world is looking for its future energy needs, and helium-3 could be tapped for use by india.

3. there is a probability of man colonizing in the future, and india should not be one of the last ones to enter. there might be potential occupations leading to territorial rights in space.

4. i hate to say this, but india is in a borderline case of a space race with china, with china already having put man in space.

5. indian moon mission is conducted at a tenth of the price similar to the west, actual amount is around $83 million(Rs 400 crore). which is a dust particle size of investment for a trillion dollar strong economy to beef up its technology sector. TECHNOLOGY IS THE DRIVING FORCE FOR ANY COUNTRY. common man in india has not woken up to it yet.

6. moon mission is creating infrastructure in the country which never existed, like the deep space network with a 32 meter antenna for tracking.

7. it is boosting the private sector industries to get into high technology sector by involving them in building such infrastructure, thus fueling the economy. it also has a spin off of enabling these industries to bid for future projects overseas thus bringing in foreign exchange.

8. its a matter of pride. how long will we sit around and listen to the glories achieved by other countries. india still has to come a long way in innovation and technology to match america. this is one of the first steps.

Better learn to speak Chinese while we’re at it, too.

More about the Chandraayan-1 and other missions to the Moon here –> http://www.moonposter.ie/missions.htm

Cheers
John
PS. Not a bad poster either if you want to learn more about our MOON.

If only reality had a “save” feature…

We lookup with great respect at US/Europe for the progress they have made in all fields. We admire how comfortable they have made life for the common-man. We will catch up soon.

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They’ve made a start with reducing the poverty rate but they have a long way to go. Building a high tech infrastructure can only help.

I can’t comment on the nuclear weapons for India, my first thought would be that nuclear power would be a good investment for the people, but that nuclear weapon money should have been spent elsewhere…but I do not know the political climate that was present and the possible threats to the populace that India had. I suppose I should read up on that and educate myself!

Arguments about “return on investment”, especially in the robotics-vs-men debate, must always include the intangible. No one knows who EECOM was for Apollo 11. There’s a big, honkin’ reason for that: if nobody goes, it’s a video game, and I can do that in the house, big deal.

Oh, gee. Try not to notice we spend more than that publishing “news” about Britney.

There will ALWAYS be poor people: those who do not, will not or cannot control themselves, regardless of outside forces. We have lottery winners in the US who are now destitute. Obviously, giving anyone money is not the solution. Feed the poor, and what you get, plain, simple and brutally is more poor people. Learning materials are literally everywhere; it’s breaking out of a cycle of poverty that’s tough. Saudi has poor people. So does Brunei, Kuwait, etc.

People whose job it is to handle the issues of poor people will see that cash keeps flowing to ensure their own jobs, but obviously that doesn’t eliminate poverty.

So far as India goes, I’m sure they’ll be successful. They don’t have to call anybody for tech support!

Once again I have to point out that NASA’s budget is less than 1/2 of 1% of the federal budget. The HHS budget (Health and Human Services, aka the welfare department) is more than half of the federal budget all by itself. Yes, it’s bigger than the military. If you dumped NASA’s entire budget into HHS it would be lost in the rounding error. I don’t know the specifics of India’s finances, but I would bet the proportions are similar.

Their space program was started specifically to improve the quality of life for their poorest and most remote citizens by developing communications satellites to serve the outlying provinces where the cost of providing land based communications was prohibitive. It was a logical sequence for them to start building boosters and launch facilities, and once you have those, the moon is an obvious target for a mission that boosts national prestige for minuscule amounts of money (on a national scale).

Remember that HHS spends the equivalent of NASA’s entire annual budget twice every day.

- Jack

I myself am not a native English speaker, but the word (astronaut) is used in my native language too.
Apparently this has been adopted because it is connected with national pride (Russians are cosmonauts, western world – English is prevalent there – so they call them astronauts), but in Chinese case it defines a nation not a word such as “cosmos”). So this is more of a Chinese Hegemony case here. Personally I believe we should use the world constructed in local language -Chinese cosmonaut in Russian, Chinese astronaut in English…). But who cares what I think?
Anyway, what happens if an Indian ends up on a Chinese flight? Indian taikonaut? taikoindionaut?

Seriously, great thing for space exploration that we are getting something in line of a new space race. Getting behind someone in race has always been a big motivational factor for world powers. I am soo getting tired of the “we should take care of problems on Earth first” argument”. It’s essentially like saying we should never do anything related to space exploration or eploration of unknown in general. Problems on Earth are never, ever going away.
I wish some people could understand that science is not a “Civilization” type video game where the tehnology tree is predefined and you know what you are getting in advance.

Dr ‘Chandra’ is curently developing a new 9000 computer to aid with the investigation…

and what should all spacemen be called then? should we stick to the American Hegemony and call them all astronauts? Or are we going to go with the “first come, first serve” principle and call them all cosmonauts in honor of Yuri Gagarin? Or we could just let every country name them whatever they wish to name them…

and for those who said India should focus on its poverty rather than spaceflight, look at it from this angle: getting American call-centers and IT-departments was the start of India’s rise of the Middle Class… now if NASA gets outsourced, too, the country will become even wealthier, with more resources to lift their poor out of poverty.

very cool stuff. glad SOMEone is still caring about science more than woo-woo

Prof. Park is a professor of physics at the University of Maryland and was formerly the Washington representative of the American Physical Society. He is the author of the book, “Voodoo Science.” His views on manned space flight are seconded by Nobel Prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg who is a professor of physics at the Un. of Texas, Austin.

The worlds scientific community and public eagerly anticipate the results from this mission, and we look forward to the next Chandrayaan 2, which reportedly will feature a lander/rover

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