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WE MADE IT TO MARS !!!

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  • R Ranjan D

    Are you kidding ? You don't have a point to say anything about $74 million on a Mars.. BTW wasting 100 Million dollars on Gravity movie is that really worth ?

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    Pete OHanlon
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    Well, the film grossed $274,084,951, making a handsome profit. The Mars mission, however, doesn't look like it will make a profit.

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      Well, the film grossed $274,084,951, making a handsome profit. The Mars mission, however, doesn't look like it will make a profit.

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      Ranjan D
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      There is a reason for everything to do and it's not a movie or a joke they wanted to perform. It's really strange that you think the Mars mission is about a profit thing. Do you have answers for the NASA's $671 million mars Maven mission ? Obviously they are not looking for any profit. Well here's a link to know the objective of this mission, directly from ISRO http://www.isro.org/pslv-c25/mission-objective.aspx[^] Thanks,

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      • R Ranjan D

        There is a reason for everything to do and it's not a movie or a joke they wanted to perform. It's really strange that you think the Mars mission is about a profit thing. Do you have answers for the NASA's $671 million mars Maven mission ? Obviously they are not looking for any profit. Well here's a link to know the objective of this mission, directly from ISRO http://www.isro.org/pslv-c25/mission-objective.aspx[^] Thanks,

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        Pete OHanlon
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        I didn't think it was about profit, but you seemed to think that the movie Gravity was a waste of money. I merely pointed out that your argument was fallacious. Oh, and I assume that no further aid needs to be sent to India.

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        • S sankarsan parida

          As our PM Narendra Modi rightly said, "we have dared to reach out into the unknown and have achieved the near impossible,"

          We are the only nation so far to reach Mars on its first attempt. We are also the nation who have spent the least amount of money to do so. India’s Mars mission has a price tag of about $74 million, a fraction of the $671 million cost of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s latest Mars program, about three-quarters of the amount to make the Oscar-winning movie 'Gravity' about astronauts stranded in space.

          NASA congratulated India in a Twitter message, welcoming Mangalyaan (Sanskrit for Mars-craft) to studying the Red Planet.

          In its six-month life, the mission will study the atmosphere of Mars and search for methane gas while asking that eternal question that has dogged humanity: "Are we alone in the universe?"

          Without faith and will, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible

          Sankarsan Parida

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          Master Man1980
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          Quote:

          "Are we alone in the universe?"

          No, your are cruising with curiosity[^] :)

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          • R Ranjan D

            There is a reason for everything to do and it's not a movie or a joke they wanted to perform. It's really strange that you think the Mars mission is about a profit thing. Do you have answers for the NASA's $671 million mars Maven mission ? Obviously they are not looking for any profit. Well here's a link to know the objective of this mission, directly from ISRO http://www.isro.org/pslv-c25/mission-objective.aspx[^] Thanks,

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            Labor is 8x cheaper in India. Hence $74 million vs. $671 million. Besides, it'd be an egg on India's face (an American expression) if they spent $740 million when 68.7% of the country lives in poverty. Here, Clickity[^], Cickity[^] Meow HERE's PROOF! Today, NASA reviews each step of mission development closely, almost "to a fault," Betts said. That kind of attention to detail doesn't come cheap. Nor do American engineers. According to PayScale.com's global survey, aerospace engineers are paid a median annual salary of $9,773 in India, and almost eight times more — $75,940 — in the United States. Linky[^]

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            • B Bassam Abdul Baki

              No link. Ergo, it didn't happen.

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              MacSpudster
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              Here ya go, Linky-Boy[^]. :wtf:

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              • S sankarsan parida

                As our PM Narendra Modi rightly said, "we have dared to reach out into the unknown and have achieved the near impossible,"

                We are the only nation so far to reach Mars on its first attempt. We are also the nation who have spent the least amount of money to do so. India’s Mars mission has a price tag of about $74 million, a fraction of the $671 million cost of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s latest Mars program, about three-quarters of the amount to make the Oscar-winning movie 'Gravity' about astronauts stranded in space.

                NASA congratulated India in a Twitter message, welcoming Mangalyaan (Sanskrit for Mars-craft) to studying the Red Planet.

                In its six-month life, the mission will study the atmosphere of Mars and search for methane gas while asking that eternal question that has dogged humanity: "Are we alone in the universe?"

                Without faith and will, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible

                Sankarsan Parida

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                "As missions go, Maven represents a Mercedes 'S' class to the Volkswagen that is MOM*," Pillai wrote. Linky[^] There, now you know why it cost more! *Mars Orbiter Mission, also known by the acronym MOM or the Hindi word Mangalyaan ("Mars-Craft")

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                  Labor is 8x cheaper in India. Hence $74 million vs. $671 million. Besides, it'd be an egg on India's face (an American expression) if they spent $740 million when 68.7% of the country lives in poverty. Here, Clickity[^], Cickity[^] Meow HERE's PROOF! Today, NASA reviews each step of mission development closely, almost "to a fault," Betts said. That kind of attention to detail doesn't come cheap. Nor do American engineers. According to PayScale.com's global survey, aerospace engineers are paid a median annual salary of $9,773 in India, and almost eight times more — $75,940 — in the United States. Linky[^]

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                  Ranjan D
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                  It looks like they don't have a common scene to spend $740 million, when the USA outsource software to India and almost every tiny hardware manufacturing to China :laugh: Based on your link one interesting thing which I found out was NASA Choosing Atlas 5 Rocket to launch new mars orbiter. And the total launch service itself costed $187 million.

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                  Each Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine burning kerosene and liquid oxygen to power its first stage and an American-built RL10 engine burning liquid hydrogen

                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V[^] http://www.space.com/9392-nasa-chooses-atlas-5-rocket-launch-mars-orbiter.html[^]

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                  • R Ranjan D

                    It looks like they don't have a common scene to spend $740 million, when the USA outsource software to India and almost every tiny hardware manufacturing to China :laugh: Based on your link one interesting thing which I found out was NASA Choosing Atlas 5 Rocket to launch new mars orbiter. And the total launch service itself costed $187 million.

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                    Each Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine burning kerosene and liquid oxygen to power its first stage and an American-built RL10 engine burning liquid hydrogen

                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V[^] http://www.space.com/9392-nasa-chooses-atlas-5-rocket-launch-mars-orbiter.html[^]

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                    sankarsan parida
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                    yes we agree that Govt. needs to concentrate to improve our hardware manufacturing

                    Sankarsan Parida

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                    • L Lost User

                      And yet the US still gives 10's of millions of US dollars to India in the form of aid every year. More than a billion dollars over the last decade. Why is that? BTW - Congrats on the Mars project! :-D

                      Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington

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                      Rob Grainger
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                      I find myself asking the same about the UK nowadays - India is becoming economically strong, I'll be more impressed when they deal with the appalling poverty in their own country.

                      "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                      • R Ranjan D

                        It looks like they don't have a common scene to spend $740 million, when the USA outsource software to India and almost every tiny hardware manufacturing to China :laugh: Based on your link one interesting thing which I found out was NASA Choosing Atlas 5 Rocket to launch new mars orbiter. And the total launch service itself costed $187 million.

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                        Each Atlas V rocket uses a Russian-built RD-180 engine burning kerosene and liquid oxygen to power its first stage and an American-built RL10 engine burning liquid hydrogen

                        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_V[^] http://www.space.com/9392-nasa-chooses-atlas-5-rocket-launch-mars-orbiter.html[^]

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                        Rob Grainger
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                        Way to answer a different question!

                        "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

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                        • P Pete OHanlon

                          I didn't think it was about profit, but you seemed to think that the movie Gravity was a waste of money. I merely pointed out that your argument was fallacious. Oh, and I assume that no further aid needs to be sent to India.

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                          Mark_Wallace
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                          Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                          you seemed to think that the movie Gravity was a waste of money

                          I, OTOH, think it was a waste of time. I was so unenchanted with it that I can't even remember how it ended -- and I'll be damned if I'll give them more money, just to find out.

                          I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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