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Re:India to launch Mars mission this year: President by xyzzy123 on Thursday February 21, 2013 @06:15AM (#5256776)
Wait, 454 crore is 83 million dollars? That _is_ amazing! That's like 8 pebble watch projects on Kickstarter.

"An engineer is someone who can do for $1 what any damn fool can do for $2".

India has a ton of great scientists and engineers, and I agree this is a mission the nation should be proud of.

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Re:India to launch Mars mission this year: President by negamax on Thursday February 21, 2013 @08:10AM (#5257151)
The two day strike currently taking place in India is said to have resulted into loss of ~25000 crore..
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Re:India to launch Mars mission this year: President by kamaal on Thursday February 21, 2013 @06:29AM (#5256809)
Chicken Feed ain't it.

What's more the moon mission(Chandrayaan-1 http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/faqs.htm) cost just $76 million.

Its sequel Chandrayaan-2 is budgeted to cost around 425 crores(News sources).

Here is one more link, ISRO's total budget is JUST 3% that of NASA - http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-03/india...

Next time around you will be hearing US government outsourcing its space projects to India :) [That was a joke, obviously]

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