Comments on: Chandrayaan-1 Now Successfully in Lunar Orbit

By: aditya_2790

aditya_2790 — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:08:37 +0000

chandrayaan 1

By: P.J.LAKHAPATE

P.J.LAKHAPATE — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:39:24 +0000

Government of India should start tours for travelling in space.
There are many rich people in the world who want to travel in space.
Thus funds can be generated through these tours and ISRO employees will remain busy for different active projects.
This will also give training to the people for travelling in space.
Obviously the selection of person/s for sending on moon will be easier.

P.J.LAKHAPATE
plakhapate@gmail.com

By: John -- www.moonposter.ie

John -- www.moonposter.ie — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:57:21 +0000

This is a great day for India.

As to the future manned mission by 2015, I would be cautious here, as Chandrayaan-2 (involving a rover that will analyse the lunar soil, search for water vapour and deposits of Helium-3) is expected to launch by 2012, but before 2016.

Given that time-line above, a manned mission would, therefore, be several years down the line I would suspect, as there's a big jump between getting a rover to the Moon and getting a man/woman there. I think we might see India getting a man/woman into orbit around Earth first — small steps at the beginning, then big one later.

John
http://www.moonposter.ie (A poster on important aspects about the Moon)

By: jai

jai — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:17:57 +0000

The following animation(Link mentioned below) is cool,and the music is great(sounds like our national anthem/Song) where it shows from milky galaxy to manned mission planned for 2014.Must watch animation!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipBOotJDJ1k

By: V.Rao

V.Rao — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:56:35 +0000

Yes, Indian is planning a manned mission by 2015 and in all probablity all the required funds will be available.

Some may debate that India is a developing country and that crores of rupees spent on such missions is unlogical. But I came through this article http://www.bharatchronicle.com/is-indias-moon-mission-really-worth-it which clrearly justifies India's ventures into space.

By: Tech Roach

Tech Roach — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:37:10 +0000

Wow. Its amazing how asian space races are catching up. I read somewhere that India is planning a manned mission to moon by 2015 if the budget gets passed in the parliament.

By: Aranzo

Aranzo — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:33:06 +0000

The atmosphere of the moon was investigated by the early Mayans. They found that the atmosphere is mainly composed of dead gaseous spirits that smell of vanilla. The surface of the moon is coated in Mayan chocolate.

Early Mayan astronauts were celestial beings who moved easily between planets. They cultivated vanilla in large quantities to make a special kind of chocolate which they used for coating planets.

Have chocolate?

By: Navneeth

Navneeth — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:32:42 +0000

Wow. I feel dumb and enlightened at the same time.

Thank you, Maxwell and Feenixx.

By: Feenixx

Feenixx — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:49:50 +0000

The moon has a thin atmosphere, mainly argon, some helium, a little methane, oxygen, nitrogen… and traces of carbon dioxide and monoxide – all together about 80000 atoms per cubic cm…. not much, but it's there.

By: Maxwell

Maxwell — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:25:49 +0000

If I recall, the moon does have an atmosphere.
Only an inch or something, but it counts.

By: Santhosh Nandakumar

Santhosh Nandakumar — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:19:29 +0000

Congratulations INDIA … INDIA has now joined the G5 along with USA,Russia,Japan and China.. Its very proud being a part of this very diverse and yet wonderful country. As a proud citizen i shared the tense moments of the Lunar Orbital Insertion, which was the most important and tricky part of the whole mission. Now its all up to the team to lower the altitude to preplanned 100km circular orbit , before which it wil start sending some valuable information…! hopefully this will keep Indian and scientists world over busy for several years.. in battling the mysteries of our moon…. Cheers INDIA and ISRO

By: Navneeth

Navneeth — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:47:29 +0000

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Mass Spectrometer measures the constituents of lunar atmosphere during descent.

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The ATMOSPHERE?