Will India go to the moon?

[smoochy]

Well 89 million$$$, is tiny compared to apollo mission and apollo had realy big chance of failing. Do you think that the mission will fail or succeed?


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will the probe live

 

[Winner]

Well, I'll repost my comparison of space budgets of the key players:

NASA - $17.3bn
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ESA - $4.6bn
Europe (non-ESA spending) - $6.3bn
Europe total - $10.9bn
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Russia - $2.2bn
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Japan - $2.1bn
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India - $0.95bn
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China - $0.5bn (I think they're hiding the real costs)

And...

Well 89 million$$$, is tiny compared to apollo mission and apollo had realy big chance of failing. Do you think that the mission will fail or succeed?

What are you comparing, exactly? This is a budget for a space PROBE, an unmanned robot, not a human mission! I think you're a bit confused...

 

[toda]

Eventually yes.

 

[smoochy]

silly me , ok will the probe live then

 

[Bugfatty300]

Well 89 million$$$, is tiny compared to apollo mission and apollo had realy big chance of failing. Do you think that the mission will fail or succeed?

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

 

[dwaxe]

Change the thread title. Now.

But yes, in response to the moon question, they eventually will.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

I am a big fan of space research. Unfortunatly the west has been lazy recently. I hope Asian competition will force the United states to upgrade its space program, since the Americans will refuse to be behind. I hope this mission succedes.

 

[sourboy]

They will because it's been done before by others, therefore they'd have some unknowns answered.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I hope so. It's certainly possible.

 

[Winner]

Landing a man on the Moon just to plant a national flag there is silly beyond imagination.

I hope India remains true to its reputation and sticks to good science instead of nationalist nonsense.

 

[temp-request]

Ι hope they fail due to the fact that they abandon the project entirely and focus on something more beneficial.

 

[Onionsoilder]

Landing a man on the Moon just to plant a national flag there is silly beyond imagination.

That is why they are sending a probe up, so it can carve "INDIA" into the surface over one million square km in area. That way everyone can see it from earth!

 

[Bugfatty300]

Landing a man on the Moon just to plant a national flag there is silly beyond imagination.

I hope India remains true to its reputation and sticks to good science instead of nationalist nonsense.

The Apollo astronauts did a lot more than just plant flags.

 

[Winner]

The Apollo astronauts did a lot more than just plant flags.

And what makes you think that I was talking about the Americans? Does everything on this world revolve around you?

I am saying that if the Chinese or Indians want to fly to the Moon just to plant a flag there and brag about it, they're silly and childish. Apollo at least had some scientific value, though it was mainly motivated by the competition with the Soviets.

 

[Aleenik]

And what makes you think that I was talking about the Americans? Does everything on this world revolve around you?

I am saying that if the Chinese or Indians want to fly to the Moon just to plant a flag there and brag about it, they're silly and childish. Apollo at least had some scientific value, though it was mainly motivated by the competition with the Soviets.

whether landing on the moon is done because of a competition like the Cold War or not, either way its a MAJOR step in a nations space program.

 

[WhiteEagle22]

I hope their probe will succeed. As for them succeeding with a manned mission down the road, that's a wait and see!

 

[Winner]

whether landing on the moon is done because of a competition like the Cold War or not, either way its a MAJOR step in a nations space program.

It's like planting a flag on top of Mount Everest or South Pole - impressive, but essentially useless.

I hope the next missions are not about planting flags, but building bases and learning how to live off Earth.

 

[WhiteEagle22]

It's like planting a flag on top of Mount Everest or South Pole - impressive, but essentially useless.

I hope the next missions are not about planting flags, but building bases and learning how to live off Earth.

Honestly, if any nation wants to plant a colony, they should do it on Mars! Atmosphere, more gravity, better light cycle, you can even use the native stuff to make the base and make it viable and profitable!

 

[Winner]

Honestly, if any nation wants to plant a colony, they should do it on Mars! Atmosphere, more gravity, better light cycle, you can even use the native stuff to make the base and make it viable and profitable!

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.

 

[dwaxe]

It's like planting a flag on top of Mount Everest or South Pole - impressive, but essentially useless.

It also shows you how to finish the job next time.