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Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan... by sbmthakur on Saturday September 07, 2019 @11:09AM (#20904207)
> GP is just highlighting that India's ruling party made this unnecessarily political. I'm not sure why it's being downvoted when it's factually accurate and is interesting in the context of the discussion.

Could you share some citations to justify your comment? There is no evidence out there that Chandrayaan was politicized by the Government. ISRO is funded by the Government and Department of Space directly comes under the PM. So, there is bound to be some Government/Minister presence.

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Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan... by mav3rick on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:20PM (#20904724)
Why should there be something distracting on launch day ?
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Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan... by sbmthakur on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:23PM (#20904753)
Distracting to whom? The scientists were pretty much focussed with their tasks.
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Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan... by mav3rick on Saturday September 07, 2019 @07:55PM (#20907522)
You are telling me ISRO spent no resources catering to this visit. Even 0.1% of resources, mindshare and energy wasted on landing day is stupid IMO. Do all speeches, visits the next day. Modi was clearly there for a photo op.
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Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan... by thewhitetulip on Sunday September 08, 2019 @12:40AM (#20908656)
To be fair, I remember PM Manmohan Singh also in ISRO live streams so that wasn't it.

My issue is that the 100 day celebration was timed around rover landing and unfortunately rover did not land.

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