India Plans to Launch Moon Mission in July

Re:India Plans to Launch Moon Mission in July by melling on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:37AM (#20172327)

People seem to ignore the benefits of national goals like the space race. Look at the surge in Physics PhD’s during the Apollo program:

“I want to grow up and work for NASA, be an astronaut, etc” can give people the desire to work harder on their education. There’s a halo effect.

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Re:India Plans to Launch Moon Mission in July by thewhitetulip on Thursday June 13, 2019 @02:45AM (#20172360)

Not to mention that when you have your own satellites then it helps in a lot of things as opposed to relying on other's satellites

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