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Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission

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Re: Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission

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Why ISROs Mars Mission is cheapest? http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-10-31/news...

Much of the designs & research is "adapted". Hence, cheaper?

$679 million (by NASA) vs $69 million (ISRO) doesn't justify that. This has been proven over and over again by Spacex: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2011/09/28/...

US govt. throws money at it.

Re: Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission

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Why ISROs Mars Mission is cheapest? http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-10-31/news...

Much of the designs & research is "adapted". Hence, cheaper?

no I think we should think of that good old "the NASA space pen" vs. "the russian pencil" analogy.

Re: Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Much of the designs & research is "adapted". Hence, cheaper?

no I think we should think of that good old "the NASA space pen" vs. "the russian pencil" analogy.

you did mean that sarcastically right? If not you might want to read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the_U.S._and_...
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