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Re:India to launch its first mission to Mars [video] by hsuresh on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @01:42AM (#6551686)
ISRO's budget is 950 million usd. Roughly about 0.33% of the total Indian budget for 13-14. While there are other pressing issues, it does not mean that you don't do anything else.

I am not even going into numerous benefits from ISRO, something demonstrated just a couple of days back with Phalin cyclone.

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Re:India to launch its first mission to Mars [video] by monsterix on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @01:47AM (#6551696)
That data is available for cheap few thousand dollars from whatever other countries have already put up there. However, I do agree that science should be kept on the front burner. Mission to mars doesn't seem a very useful one for climate study though.
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Re:India to launch its first mission to Mars [video] by iamshs on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @01:59AM (#6551721)
Yeah and you know what those countries predicted? They were way off [1]. Developing indigenous capability in scientific community means future progress, and produces fruit rather than simple outright outsourcing.

[1] - http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1ocz33/a_pleasant...

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