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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by hoorayimhelping on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:28AM (#20497322)
It took 11 and a half years from when this deal was signed to launch. How long did it take the Avengers movie to be made? For comparison, America decided to send humans to the moon in September 1962, and successfully did it in July 1969, after creating the technology and process to do this. Also using humans, not machines.

America's Surveyor program, which successfully soft landed 5 probes on the moon from 1966-1968, had a total cost of $469 million, again inventing the technology and processes to do this. That comes out to 93.8 million per successful launch or 67 million per launch.

What point are you making exactly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_program

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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by miskin on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:36AM (#20497375)
Maybe consider that you are speaking about 67 millon per launch in 1969 dollar, which, according to quick google search is equivalent of 470 million in today's USD.
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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by yread on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:30AM (#20498936)
If you consider PPP conversion ratio 1$ spent in in India is equivalent to about 17$ spent in the US. So 141M$ in India today is equivalent to 2.5B$ in the US. This also gives a better estimate of what else could be bought for the money on this kind of project

https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/india/ppp-conversion-factor

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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by miskin on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:43PM (#20502159)
I see your point, but this would make more sense for comparison of highway construction or other projects that require lot of people with average salary and common resources. High tech is, I believe, very competitive and you do not manh need 'common' people working on it. Also technologies used are not common and cannot easily take advantage of scale of indian economy.
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Re:India Launches Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission on Second Try by justin66 on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:34AM (#20497357)
If you made modern, even vaguely similar comparisons to how much landing a probe on the moon would cost the United States space program today and how long it would take to get it through the pipeline, the parent poster's point would stand even more clearly.
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