Up, Up and Away

Here launches our country’s first moon mis­sion. Although unmanned, it (sup­pos­edly) bring[s] our coun­try great pride and (some­how ?!) marks a launch-off our country’s progress rad­i­cally.
The real inter­est­ing and cool thing I found was this image released by our country’s ISRO (Indian Space Research Orga­ni­za­tion) on their main chan­drayaan page

at http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan-1/

October 22, 2008 – 10:39 am | By Mystic Ranger | Posted in personal | Tagged , , | Comments (4)
  • Vineesh

    Instead of just so much art. Why don’t you try fig­ur­ing how does the Chan­drayaan mis­sion fit into the grand scheme of progress for India?

    For that mat­ter, do u think that space is a final fron­tier?
    I’d say NOT AT ALL! Space is just one of the fron­tiers to be dis­cov­ered more.

    Neways ur thots plz! :)

  • Anurag

    You know, this post tells me how lit­tle you really know about the Indian Space Pro­gram. There have been, in total, 22 (23 if you count USSR’s and Russia’s as dis­tinct) space agen­cies oper­at­ing satel­lites from about 46 agen­cies of which 2 are not even oper­ated by coun­tries. Of these, only 8, namely, China’s, India’s, Russia’s, USA’s, Japan’s, EU’s, Iran’s and Israel’s have launch­ing capa­bil­ity, and only 3, that is Rus­sia, China and USA have ever had a manned space flight. Israel’s and Iran’s Space Agen­cies flour­ish due to its mil­i­tary uses, and Russia’s and USA’s as a result of the Cold War and the Space Race. Japan, in con­trast to India, has had 4 dif­fer­ent agen­cies, with the newest, JAXA, hav­ing been estab­lished in 2003. China’s own agency was estab­lished in 1993. India, China and Japan all intend to send manned mis­sions to the moon in the 1920s, at the same time that USA shall send another manned mis­sion. India has under the tute­lage of Homi Jahangir Bhabha and Vikram Sarab­hai devel­oped indige­nous launch vehi­cles, which are pow­ered by indige­nously devel­oped cryo­genic engines, some­thing not used by the other coun­tries, to my knowl­edge. As far as I recall, India recently made a mile­stone launch with the high­est pay­load of sat­telites, both for­eign and Indian. On top of that, only Japan, China, India, USA, Rus­sia and Europe have sent mis­sions to the moon.

    So, kindly stop being so deroga­tory about the India Space Pro­gram. It was started way before your birth and by a much more intel­li­gent vision­ary and sci­en­tist. As I said, you don’t no much about ISRO, so please don’t make such remarks.

  • Vishesh

    @vineesh: In the progress of study­ing more about the indian spce mis­sion
    @anurag: I am so sorry, for includig that “yes, Indian”, com­ment, and def­i­nitely did not mean any harm to any per­son. Some com­ments like (some­how?!) basi­cally were to show how I per­son­ally did not under­stand the point of the mis­sion, and like many other non-well-read-people, was doubt­ful if this, pre­vi­ously well achieved “achieve­ment” was worth the invest­ment and effort that went into. ISRO was def­i­nitely a major achieve­ment, but in our stu­pid “down-to-earth” points of view, going to the moon now, does not really prove a point. But I do real­ize that it can also be called a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone con­sid­er­ing the fact that we are the sixth coun­try to be going to the moon, and stuff like that. I too am read­ing more about what’s spe­cial, and what was the objec­tive of the mis­sion, and would also like your views on them. :)

  • Anurag

    Ah. Okay then. The point of it, though, is that only one coun­try has ever vis­ited the moon, the USA, and its more or less a mat­ter of national pride in get­ting an Indian there before the Chi­nese and the Japan­ese and before the next Amer­i­can attempt. And, the first step of that is get­ting a probe there.