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Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan... by stochastic_monk on Saturday September 07, 2019 @08:49AM (#20903451)
Modi’s been in power for years. This is an initiative started while he was in office.

My point isn’t that it’s a distraction, but that it’s also about building party power. Kashmir is just the brightest, clearest signal regarding the goals of his administration.

Edit: While the push to complete it came in 2015, it was (see poster below) in the works as far back as 2007, and I was mistaken to think it’s directly attributable to Modi.

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Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan... by valarauko on Saturday September 07, 2019 @09:10AM (#20903548)
Chandrayaan 2 was approved in 2008 by the UPA government of Manmohan Singh. The mission was planned for 2012-13, with Russia to provide the lander. Russian delays forced ISRO to start development on its own lander in 2015.

It's just lazy to lay every action at Modi's feet.

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