Comments on: India's Chandrayaan-1 On Its Way to the Moon

By: Nikhil

Nikhil — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:59:26 +0000

India and indians for centuries have been adopting the policy of peaceful co existence. It is with this policy tat india allowed US and ESA instruments to be part of CHANDRAYAAN-1. Salutes to the great nation wer great people like buddha, gandhi, subhas chandra bose, abdul kalam and Vajpayee were born.

By: Yogesh

Yogesh — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:06:10 +0000

In last couple of years, India has grown as an economic superpower which can now spends millions and billions in science. Chandrayaan-1 truly reflects that India has always been capable of doing such things, its just matter of time before it could divert its resources to science like what US, Europe and China has been doing since a long time.

By: sai

sai — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:38:38 +0000

@ McCain:
Chuck it, let it go. Moon is our property, by our I mean, Earth's property and not just America.

By: sai

sai — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:37:11 +0000

AHH! Now BigBang >>the existence of homo sapiens>> and the moon missions, rest all is bullshit, let it be any thing which happened in history.
We were born to survive as a planet. we are going their. Hey Aliens we the PEOPLE OF EARTH are coming to wish you! Damn I love this. Lets all of our civilizations go to the outer space.

By: Amitava Maitra

Amitava Maitra — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:38:42 +0000

It's a giant leap for ISRO and people of India as a whole. Chandrayaan-1 has opened our minds to the vastness of cosmos.ISRO, the NASA of India, will definitely help us to get out of all widespread ignorance and Pseudoscience. I feel, launching of Chandrayaan-1 and its importance should be highlighted in a greater way. It should not be a neglected news of the fifth page of a newspaper.

By: F.Z.KAZI

F.Z.KAZI — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:39:51 +0000

WE HAVE UNCOVERED THE DARKNESS BY INVENTING LIGHT BUT WE ARE STILL TO OVERCOME FLOOD AND FIRE DISASTER THINK OVER IT MAY GOD GIVES US POWER TO OVER COME IT.

By: FARID KAZI

FARID KAZI — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:35:56 +0000

THERE IS ANOTHER QUESTION UNANSWERED IS LIFE THERE IN SPACE

ACCORDING TO HADITH BYMOHAMMED "PEACE BE UPON HIM"
YES THERE IS LIFE BUT THESE HABITAINS ARE SO FAR FROM US THAT THEY CANNOT CONTACT US NEITHER WE CAN CONTACT THEM.

I THINK ALLAH HAS KEPT THEM AWAY BECAUSE HE DOES NOT NEED UNIVERSAL WAR.

By: FARID KAZI

FARID KAZI — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:29:15 +0000

MAY BE WE FIND AUTHENTICITY OF THIS HISTORY

By: FARID KAZI

FARID KAZI — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:27:21 +0000

DEAR SIR

PROPHET MOHAMMED PEACE BE UPON HIM DIVIDED MOON IN TWO PARTS ACCORDING TO ISALAMIC HADITH

By: Sashi

Sashi — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:10:11 +0000

Why are people talking about a space race?? the Indians are sending a lunar probe that will share data with NASA and the ESA. when was the last time anyone went to space spending billions of dollars and gave out the data for free?? I am Indian and i grew up in India. I was taught that Neil Armstrong was the first human to reach the moon, and he is my idol and a hero for many. I dont care if he is american, african or indian. we are talking about planets, solar systems galaxies and humanity and these things are much bigger than people, races, ego's and their nations.
if anything you should be worried about china shooting down satellites… not about india going to the moon to make a topographical map and to find other minerals.

By: krakhed

krakhed — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:43:17 +0000

Hindustan Times says NASA employees are sending their resumes to ISRO.

The exodus has begun.

Thanks a lot, India.

Looking so forward to my new Soylent Green lifestyle.

By: kongaman

kongaman — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:04:43 +0000

These Indians laugh because they know they are stealing American jobs – and next will be the Universe.

A Universe full of Calcuttas. Imagine that.

By: Sagarika

Sagarika — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:38:26 +0000

George, I think u should be more worried for the US's economy rather to claim the moon. I read somewhere that US landed on the moon decades ago…but Indians did not find you there….

By: Rajeev.R.S.

Rajeev.R.S. — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:28:16 +0000

Guys, Its is not about which country reached moon first or which country holds authority…time is near guys to speak for whole world… speak for humans throughout the world, let this moon mission from India help all the human beings to survive in this world for years to come. Afterall we (the people in the earth) are not even a small spot in this galaxy and let we (this tiny spot) help each other to survive in this galaxy for ever.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:56:08 +0000

I for one am delighted every time the challenge of space exploration gets picked up by another country. We may have different cultures, speak different languages, different skin complexions – but the reality that we're on this tiny rock together is undeniable. The answers we need to grow & survive are out there and well hidden – so the more of us who search the better.

God speed Chandrayaan-1!

By: Chanthira

Chanthira — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:06:44 +0000

Simply brtilliant!!!..India the cradle of human civilization and knowledge..There's more to come…This is just the beginning. This could be India's and America's century….Cheers.

By: SAtish

SAtish — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:43:58 +0000

I dont know why the Americans are so proudy and jealous. what ever leave it.

i jusy want tell you that, in timing from lunching to reaching at destination, launch vehicle is very promt than ever vehicle in the world. There is no challenge to PSLV launcher in the world abt its timing.
Now just wait upto 2015 when india will have manned mission.

By: Rohith

Rohith — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:37:16 +0000

*correction*
for more funds

and moreover I guess such commercialization would help small countries to launch their own satellites.

By: Rohith

Rohith — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:35:01 +0000

@Feenixx
"Perhaps India will set up a really good medical treatment service on the moon, better than anything we Europeans and you US-Americans can even dream of…."

LOL

ISRO need commercialization of launches for it to support itself instead of relying on parliament for the more funds. So other space agency's payloads are always welcome

By: Maanju

Maanju — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:58:16 +0000

Hey Cain just to remind you:

Ancient Egyptians and Indians found out the early planents

Pyolemy(Greek) gave the first (geocentric)theory about solar system even thogh wrong

Copernicus (Polish) gave the correct theory about solar system

Kepler (German) gave the laws of planetary motion which is being used by every space agency

Newton (British) gave the laws of gravitation which corroborated Kepler's laws. The Newtonian machanics forms the basis of all machines including rockets that take you to the moon

Where were you Americans at those times??

By: Feenixx

Feenixx — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:22:08 +0000

Some of the comments here horrify me…

I'm just thinking:
maybe, if the Indian Space Agency had left out NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper and mini-SAR, there would have been no need for expensive and time-consuming modifications to the launch vehicle???
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Perhaps India will set up a really good medical treatment service on the moon, better than anything we Europeans and you US-Americans can even dream of….

By: Joe Shobe

Joe Shobe — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:31:03 +0000

Congratulations India! Let's all realize our reaches into space are at one level a matter of national pride, but at the highest level its the species that is learning how to navigate its way off of the planet in the search of our next home – needed for sure within the next 1.1 billion years or so. As we learn to cooperate as a species, we will go much farther with our technologies.

By: anshu

anshu — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:51:55 +0000

george mcain ki maa ki chud apni auukaad main rahhaa kar bhosdi ke

By: DestroyAllHumans

DestroyAllHumans — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:36:36 +0000

I suspect NASA will be outsourcing its lunar colonies to India in a few decades.

And we better learn to speak Chinese while up there, too.

By: Jon Hanford

Jon Hanford — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:54:14 +0000

Congrats to the fledgling Indian space program. India is now entering the world stage in the exploration of space, the more the merrier! I hope that missions such as Chandrayaan-1 encourages other nations to cooperate in the peaceful exploration of space instead of the militarization of space. We should all look forward to increased interest in space exploration by other nations interested in peaceful applications of science & technology. I look forward to the mapping info to be accumulated by Chandrayaan-1, LRO & other European, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese lunar missions. The future of lunar exploration looks bright indeed.