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Posted by jfb on October 22nd, 2008 | 0 comments
Moon mission takes India’s space program in new direction
Elsewhere “space programs came as spinoffs of military programs, so the things the space program was expected to deliver were things that could be used in defense,” says S.K. Das, a former ISRO official. “In the Indian space program – because it was so late to develop, it had to be justified in terms of social outcomes.”
The result was a program “designed to help its own people, rather than as a token of national pride,” says Mr. Foust.
Spacecraft blasts off to probe edge of solar system
Congress Withholds Funding for Spysat Program
Sierra Nevada Corp. to buy SpaceDev for $38 million
