[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] India becomes the fourth country ever to land a spacecraft on the moon

[Harry Forsdick]

I am most impressed with India's accomplishment of landing an unmanned
space vehicle on the Moon.

But, consider this: India has the 5th out of the 50 largest GDP of
economies in the world but the 48th out of 50 countries in per capita GDP.
While landing a space vehicle is impressive, raising the per capita GDP
would be far more impressive an accomplishment.

I also find these claims of India doing this for less than others a
little disingenuous. There is a lot more to the story of why this might be
true:

   - NASA is doing a lot more than India's flight to the north pole of the
   moon.
   - NASA, and several other space agencies have created an incredible
   amount of prior knowledge over the 60 years of space exploration for use by
   other countries, including India.  This must have saved them a ton of money.
   - This is India's third attempt to accomplish such a landing.

I'm not trying to tarnish India's accomplishment -- rather I am reluctant
to feel badly about our more expensive efforts to achieve spectacular
results in our space exploration.

Regards,

-- Harry



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On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 1:41 PM Mitchell I. Wolfe via LCTG <
lctg at lists.toku.us> wrote:

> Reuters reported the $75M budget as part of the initial coverage.
>
> Today they had an article about how costs were controlled on the
> suppliers, schedules, fuel, etc.
>
>
> https://www.reuters.com/world/india/chandrayaan-3-punches-home-indias-lead-budget-space-flights-2023-08-24/
>
> On 2023-08-24 12:40, Larry Wittig via LCTG wrote:
>
> An interesting note is that they did it for a small fraction of the price
> we pay. I think I it was $75M.
>
> https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/india-chandrayaan-3-moon-landing-came-at-small-cost.html
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:28 PM Peter Albin via LCTG <lctg at lists.toku.us>
> wrote:
>
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/23/world/chandrayaan-3-lunar-landing-attempt-scn/index.html
>
> Peter
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