Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet recently expanded its Outer Space budget and added ambitious new plans to put in on par with the top nations of the world. Starting with crewed missions, going on the a lunar sample return project, a satellite to orbit the planet Venus, ...
India Soaring to the Moon Again
The recent announcement by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) about a 2013 unmanned mission to the moon - Chandraayan-II – indicates a forward-thinking, progressing and growing presence of India in space exploration. The exploitation is a good thing since the first Indian moon expedition included six foreign payloads. Although...