India Plans manned Moon Mission between 2005 and 2015 (Uh, what is wrong with this picture?)

BANGALORE: India plans to send a manned mission to the moon sometime between 2005 and 2015, a senior space research official said on Saturday. (The latest is for a mission by India in 2008) "In a few months from now, there will be a review of our plans for a lunar mission. We would first send an unmanned flight around the moon," said Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, head of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). Kasturirangan made the announcement in a speech to the Indian Science Congress. He did not give further details. Kasturirangan said India's latest launch vehicle can put satellites weighing up to 2,000 kg into a geostationary orbit, in which a satellite remains above the same spot on earth. Future developments will enable the launch of satellites weighing up to 4,000 kg, he told the conference of scientists in Bangalore, India's technology hub. My 2¢s worth: So, the United States is policing the screw-ups and assorted bullcrap from the rest of the world, while the countries responsible for cleaning up their own problems continue on like nothing is happening. Screw this, pull everyone back, cut all funding (except to Russia who are remarkably enough, one of our most needed allies) and when they annihilate themselves (and / or each other), let God sort them out. If not, our kids will be never be able to see what we have continue.