The Indian Space Research Organisation has turned India into a space power for a fraction of the billions that the U.S. and Russia have spent on their programs.
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Indians are proudly noting that their country has landed on the moon for less than the cost of the average Hollywood space blockbusterIndia became the world’s first country to reach the lunar south pole on Wednesday, three days after Russia’s spacecraft crashed in the same region. WSJ explains why the two countries were racing to get there, and how their missions could affect the global space race.
NEW DELHI—Surendra Pal, an engineer who worked at India’s space agency for four decades to build its satellite program, still remembers the early days of . A handful of engineers fresh out of college worked out of sheds with corrugated metal roofs on the outskirts of Bengaluru. There wasn’t a lot of equipment. But there were birds.Continue reading your article with
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