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Re:India successfully launches first mission to the Moon by Prrometheus on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @04:36AM (#339846)
The next space race will be spurred on by applications that are not purely symbolic or scientific in nature. We are seeing this today with the rise of the private commercial space industry, and I fear that the military will be close behind.
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Re:India successfully launches first mission to the Moon by tom_rath on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @09:49AM (#340010)
Close behind?!?!

Read a bit more space program history and you'll find the military is actually far ahead as far as applications (and budget!) are concerned.

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