The cost of the Indian Mars satellite is about $70 million. I know that would buy a lot of baked beans but for a satellite to Mars it's damned cheap. For comparison NASA expenditure runs at about $10 billion a year.
---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote: It appears that the mission controllers are using jyotish principles by launching their rocket on Tuesday, the day of Mars. The mission is expensive and the costs could have been used for feeding the starving people in their country. But it appears that the country wants to develop their space capability perhaps to retain their scientists in their country instead of letting them emigrate to the USA and other European countries. http://news.yahoo.com/indias-first-mission-mars-launching-tuesday-233247300.html http://news.yahoo.com/indias-first-mission-mars-launching-tuesday-233247300.html
