India and the moon.

Back to the India and the moon. The country will be the fourth to place its flag on the moon, there have been 60 launches before Chandrayaan, so what is the euphoria about? The Indian space programme, Newsweek says, can't claim to be a space leader but is far ahead of other countries on one count: its use of space technologies to solve problems of everyday people on the ground. India's investment in Earth observation satellites is a tenth of what the West invests but it has managed to build and launch 46 satellites in 20 years.  more