yeah yeah, tucker was first but chose the wrong thread. India Moon LandingIn Latest Moon Race, India Lands First in Southern Polar Region Days after a Russian lunar landing failed, India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission is set to begin exploring an area of the moon that has yet to be visited. Free link NYTIMES
I'm willing to bet as soon as the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 was announced, a few folks from Roscosmos mysteriously went missing.
Would some mod please edit the title to include: Chandrayaan-3 Here's the wiki link. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-3 India should be rightly proud of their achievement. Launch to dual landings.
Yeah, but it's not like the cost of living in India is comparable to that of the US or UK. ~10 or so years ago, when remote work really started becoming a thing for some people, there were a number of Indians living in the US (some who were born here, others who had emigrated to the US years before), taking jobs that they could do remotely that paid like $45K/yr and moving to India because they could live like the ultra-wealthy here. Big house, lots of cars, servants, the whole nine yards.
It's still impressive. Hardware, fuel and so on costs money. Maybe the Mars mission should be outsourced to them...
Hardware and fuel that can be sourced locally, in many cases. And while I'm sure that given enough time and money, India could make an awesome Mars craft, let's remember what the failure rate for such missions are: 60% and the only reason it's that low is because NASA has lost a smaller percentage of their missions than anyone else. Even then, I think that we're batting about .500. Handing off some of the near-Earth stuff to a country like India isn't a bad idea at all. Not only do we get the science done for less, but the Indians will build up the necessary skillset so that they can send probes to other places with a high rate of success. Have a coalition of nations, like the US, China, and the EU, focus on the really, really hard stuff, such as getting humans to the moon, while nations like India, Japan, Israel, and others who can reliably send things to orbit (or the moon) handle stuff like probes we sent to figure out the best spots for humans to explore. (And have a universal technology transfer, so everything we figure out about rockets, etc., we give to India, and anything they figure out about probes, etc., they give to us.) By the time we're looking at putting humans on Mars, India or another nation will probably have the current level of reliability for probes to Mars that NASA has, and that's good enough for us to build a crewed program to Mars around, using data sent back by India's landers on Mars.
Feed me a nice chicken tikka masala with some butter naan, pakora and vegetable biryani, and I'll give you enough propulsion to get you to Saturn!
That is awesome! Kudos to all of the scientists, engineers, builders, and everyone involved in making their successful landing happen!
ISRO puts Chandrayaan-3 rover in sleep mode to survive lunar night China’s first lunar rover was allowed to freeze to death, and the conditions that the rover is facing on the moon are more extreme than those on Mars.
