Congrats to the team!!!
Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]
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#362Congrats to all the engineers that made this possible. Practice makes perfect. Space travel is hard.
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#363Congratulations India! And everyone. Actually congratulations to all countries still running space programmes including Russia's failure. The more the merrier. This is a stupendously difficult thing to do, India is truly a superpower.
Here Here. It also ironic that a country and population seen as backwards by the British Empire have overtaken the British in landing on the moon. Would be nice to see the African and South American continent achieve a moon landing as well.
> It also ironic that a country and population seen as backwards by the British Empire have overtaken the British in landing on the moon.
This is not the moment to go there, but still since we're on the topic, current leaders of Britain (Prime Minister), Ireland (Taoiseach) and Scotland (First Minister) are all of Indian-Subcontinent origin. Britain and Ireland have leaders of Indian origin, while Scotland has of Pakistani origin.
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#364Despite all the sour comments trying to find fault and criticize, this is a remarkable achievement, especially on the heels of the failed Chandrayaan-2 mission. Congrats to the team!!! Just 4 years to recover from the failure and achieve a phenomenal success. India just keeps executing despite what others may say. The team deserves even more praise to be able to achieve these wins with limited resources.
And a very inexpensive/frugal attempt for that matter! It has been a miracle of cost effectiveness. This is a wonder on its own.
What was the budget, and how does it compare to similar projects?
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#365Momentous day not just for India, but also for humanity.
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#366Despite all the sour comments trying to find fault and criticize, this is a remarkable achievement, especially on the heels of the failed Chandrayaan-2 mission. Congrats to the team!!! Just 4 years to recover from the failure and achieve a phenomenal success. India just keeps executing despite what others may say. The team deserves even more praise to be able to achieve these wins with limited resources.
And a very inexpensive/frugal attempt for that matter! It has been a miracle of cost effectiveness. This is a wonder on its own.
>It has been a miracle of cost effectiveness. This is a wonder on its own.
India has the third highest global GDP by PPP. This is incredibly powerful when you invest in your citizens education the way they have, as the cost of anything like this ends up coming down to skilled labor prices. Their number one competitive advantage at this point is human capital.
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#367Well done to everyone involved!
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#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
And a very inexpensive/frugal attempt for that matter! It has been a miracle of cost effectiveness. This is a wonder on its own.
What was the budget, and how does it compare to similar projects?
According to Wikipedia they estimated US$90 Million in July
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-3#Funding
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#369Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The infamous quote "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." What makes the quote in famous rather than just famous?
Could just be a misuse of infamous but could just as well be intended to refer to the fact that Man and Mankind mean the same. You need an article in front to transform "One small step for Man" into "One small step for a man" to refer to Neil himself stepping.
"One small step for a man" is what he actually said, I think, or so I've heard. Apparently the "a" was lost due to radio interference.
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#370This is incredible! Congratulations to everyone involved