India launches 1st unmanned moon mission (Update)

Well chalk one up for India huh? They make tiny little cars that only cost a few thousand buck, and send stuff to space. Very well rounded. I wonder if the new map of the moon will include a nice layout of the new lunar golf course: Lunar Links and Crater Club ( www.ootwo.com/moon.asp )? I hope so.

Congrats to the fledgling Indian space program. India is now entering the world stage in the exploration of space, the more the merrier! I hope that missions such as Chandrayaan-1 encourage other nations to cooperate in the peaceful exploration of space instead of the militarization of space. We should all look forward to increased interest in space exploration by other nations interested in peaceful applications of science & technology. I look forward to the mapping info to be accumulated by Chandrayaan-1, LRO & other European, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese space programs. The future of lunar exploration looks bright indeed.

"Beijing in 2003 became the first Asian country to put its own astronauts into space. It followed that last month with its first spacewalk."

Beijing is not a country.

If only the militarizing of space would not happen, but sadly the first steps have already been taken.

The first blatantly aggressive (not to mention reckless as it significantly added to the orbiting junk pile) step was taken by China when it demonstrated ground based space weapons as mentioned in the article. Unless all sides agree (not likely) to curb the trend it will continue unabated.

Great, next time we're on the moon and our computers go on the blink, we can call Krishna the tech to help us out. Yes indeedeely!

all this mapping by non usa should prove if they were on the moon or not.

all this mapping by non usa should prove if they were on the moon or not.

IF, that's a BIG IF, India is allowed to release the RAW photo's. I Sincerely doubt it.