Will India go to the moon?

[RedRalph]

Nonsense.

Atmosphere is no plus, if it's as thin as the Martian one is. Moon has one entirely overwhelming advantage over Mars: it is CLOSE. Mars is way too far, with our current technology the trip there would take 6 months and you could repeat it only once per 2 years.

Moon has a lot of resources we could use, it is only 3-days of travel far from Earth, it has weak gravity so lifting heavy things to space is easy. Also, you can build a space elevator from Moon to L1 point with a simple steel rope, you don't need some carbon nanotube hi-tech stuff that's necessary on Earth.

Moon is a gold mine, much more profitable in short/medium term.

what resources are there on the moon we can use?

 

[Patroklos]

Apollo programs were manned missions. Of course there is going to be a huge cost gap.

India would have the benefit of the knowledge gained by the first go around, as well as the availability of better gerneral technology. That is why everything China has done is horribly unimpressive.

 

[Winner]

what resources are there on the moon we can use?

All sorts of metals and minerals.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

They can go, so long as they don't vandalize our flag and the other equipment we left there. I know, it's not like we're using it, but it's still ours.