a few days? something this spectacular should be published immediately, otherwise its hard to believe.
I'm not sure why some Indian news media do this, but anyway, the box-shaped impact probe was painted in the tricolour, it's not the same as Apollo astronauts unfurled the American flag, duh. It's not even a rover, that yet to happen (2011?) and manned mission by 2015-18. Sun and Mars explorations are planned, too. The idea of painting the impact probe was by Abdul Kalam, former president of India. Press release. As the probe itself was the flag and crash-landed on moon, I'm afraid you'll have to wait for couple of years, until the Indian astronauts lands on moon. The only images that I could found was one or two picture taken by the MIP (Moon Impact Probe) of moon surface - And here's the probe picture, tricolour on the side - Fourth country that has some 'stuff' on the moon, and that's MIP.
Can anyone give the list of countries whose flags are on moon now. I know only 2 US India there will be many for sure but I dont know
Guys its not exactly the flag but the probe which has the flag on it...but with this we surely can see if the flags of the countries are actually there on moon ha ha
Money spent on technological development is rarely wasted. In this case, India's space programme is now in competition for the roughly 15-20 million spent per satellite launches. It's a good business to be in.
- US - Russia - Japan - India (in order of who did first) India's moon mission cost (USD $80 million) less than a Boeing 747 plane (USD $275 million). It's the cheapest moon mission ever. About 4 percent of three years budget of ISRO spent on the project. Like josephspars said, it's never a waste to spend on technological development. You're talking about two different things, what makes you think that nothing is being done for health and education plans? If something is done for infrastructure, another guy would come up and say "why not education?" And the story continues like that.
Its a great achievement for India and Indians We should proud for it. congrats for all Indians and world
Absolutely right, but should it stop you from achieving goal every body desires at very cheap rate. The cost of the moon mission was only $80 odd millions.
congrats India, good work done. being hungry? are you talking about india? Lowest standards of living? no way sir! education? health? people don't want these, they want to farm their land, and they are happy to do so, think about "Singur", they kicked out tatas jobs, roads, hospitals, houses, schools just because they want only their farms... Government is doing a good thing, by going into research. Technology will fetch money by getting more business opportunity in the future, rather than wasting money by giving these people something that they don't want....