NEW DELHI, India -- India will send a spacecraft to the moon by 2008, prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said in his Independence Day address to the nation Aug. 15. The announcement has put an end to suspense over the fate of the roughly $100 million project of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) that was waiting for a formal sanction for over eight months. (For the whole story, click here)
And you can't tell me that this does not chap NASA's butt (a lot). With the monstrous successes and catastrophic failures since the Apollo missions, they have to be hurt with by the drive of the Indian people to get this done. All the NASA people hear are scoffs, jeers, and accusations.
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