<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394">I am most impressed with India's accomplishment of landing an unmanned space vehicle on the Moon.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394">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:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394"><ul><li style="padding-bottom:0.6001em">NASA is doing a lot more than India's flight to the north pole of the moon.</li><li style="padding-bottom:0.6001em">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.</li><li style="padding-bottom:0.6001em">This is India's third attempt to accomplish such a landing.</li></ul><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>-- Harry</div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2"><font color="#0b5394"><br></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" size="2"><font color="#0b5394"><br></font></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-left:0px;margin-right:auto"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.forsdick.com/resume/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Harry Forsdick</a><br><a href="http://lexingtonphotoscan.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Lexington Photo Scanning</a><br><a href="http://lexingtontmma.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Town Meeting Member Precinct 7</a><br><a href="mailto:harry@forsdick.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">harry@forsdick.com</a><br></font><a href="http://www.forsdick.com/" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.forsdick.com</a><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></td><td width="5"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></td><td valign="top" style="font-size:10pt"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="https://goo.gl/xZXT2F" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">46 Burlington St.<br>Lexington, MA 02420</a><br><a href="callto:17817996002" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">(781) 799-6002 (mobile)</a><br><font color="#0b5394"><a href="http://meet.jit.si/HarryForsdick" target="_blank">meet.jit.si/HarryForsdick</a> (video)</font><br><a href="http://forsdick.weebly.com/home/my-websites" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Click</a> to see my other websites<br></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></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_822315061793370078reply-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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