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Article: India rethinking its plan to send a man to the moon
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- August 12, 2004
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S. SRINIVASAN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-12-2004
Dateline: BANGALORE, India
India is rethinking its plan to send a man to the moon by 2015, as the mission would cost a lot of money and yield very little in return, the national space agency said Thursday.
"Whatever a man can do in space, it can be done with instrumentation, also," said G. Madhavan Nair, head of the Indian Space Research Organization. "This program is going to be very, very expensive. So, a national debate is required whether we have to embark on a manned mission or not."
Last year, the ISRO said it would send a spacecraft to orbit the moon by 2005 and land an astronaut on the moon by 2015.
Some scientists ...
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