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Chandrayaan, Mangalyaan: Why it costs India so little to reach the Moon and Mars
India has approved 227bn rupees ($2.7bn) for new space projects - but the funding is far from lavish.
Image caption, Last year, India became the first country in the world to land near the previously-unexplored lunar south pole Article information Author, Geeta Pandey Role, BBC News, Delhi 4 November 2024, 00:47 GMT “Isro’s founder and scientist Vikram Sarabhai had to convince the government that a space programme was not just a sophisticated luxury that had no place in a poor country like India. In 1974, after Delhi conducted its first nuclear test and the West imposed an embargo, banning transfer of technology to India, the restrictions were “turned into a blessing in disguise” for the space programme, he adds.
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