<div dir="ltr">I don't think you can simply compare India to US costs for a moon landing and rover<div><br><div>You can hire a very capable software engineer in Bangaloru for the cost of an Amazon delivery driver in Boston</div><div>Hardware engineers are somewhat more expensive as the good ones have all emigrated to the US</div></div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div>PS: the more interesting moon - related story this week is the crash of the Russians Luna-25 into the moon's surface while preparing to land</div><div>The last successful lunar mission launched by the Soviets/Russians took place when Gerald Ford was President of the US and Leonid Brezhnev was the Soviet Boss</div><div><br></div><div>from the wikipedia article on Luna and Luna-Glob</div><div>Luna 24 E-8-5M No.413 Sample return </div><div>launched 9 August 1976 by Proton-K/D booster</div><div>Successful Landed in Mare Crisium (12.25 N, 62.20 E) at 02:00 UTC on 18 August 1976. </div><div>Sample returned to Earth on 22 August 1976<br></div><div><br></div><div>Luna 25 (Luna-Glob Lander) South pole lander </div><div>Launched 10 August 2023 Soyuz 2.1b<br>crashed into the moon 19 August 2023<br></div><div><br></div><div>from <a href="https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/luna-glob.htm">https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/luna-glob.htm</a></div><div>Luna 25 was successfully launched on 10 August 2023. </div><div>It entered a lunar orbit on 16 August 2023. </div><div>On 19 August, Luna 25 was to lower its orbit in preparation for a landing on 21 August 2023 near the lunar south pole at the crater Boguslawsky, but during this maneuver contact was lost. </div><div>Reportedly the burn was 50% larger than planned, causing the lander to crash on the lunar surface.<br></div><div>Note: it may have contaminated the moon with Pu -- since it had both solar arrays and a radioisotope thermal-electric unit</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 1:41 PM Mitchell I. Wolfe via LCTG <<a href="mailto:lctg@lists.toku.us">lctg@lists.toku.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<p>Reuters reported the $75M budget as part of the initial coverage.</p>
<p>Today they had an article about how costs were controlled on the suppliers, schedules, fuel, etc.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/chandrayaan-3-punches-home-indias-lead-budget-space-flights-2023-08-24/" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/world/india/chandrayaan-3-punches-home-indias-lead-budget-space-flights-2023-08-24/</a></p>
<p id="m_-6874920014984274102reply-intro">On 2023-08-24 12:40, Larry Wittig via LCTG wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">An interesting note is that they did it for a small fraction of the price we pay. I think I it was $75M.
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