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Why are you sad? Why are you mentioning this? Stay off this thread.

No I was correct. You were way off.

You said % of GDP not budget. And yes you were way off. You said 10%. The closest it came to 10% was 4.5%, hardly close to 10%.

They did not spend 10% of the gdp. You are confusing that spending with the spending on Vietnam war. You are way off with the percentage of the GDP. They only spent $25b total on Project Apollo which adjusted for 2020 inflation was around $257 billion from 1960 to 1973. Divide $257B by 13...

USA put a man on the moon within a decade of launching its first rocket into orbit and that was after JKF's declaration of putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade. All the timelines and milestones you are quoting reeks of bureaucratic red tape and hand wringing and putting up...

To reach the moon you have to aim for the stars!

Where did you get the $2.5 billion figure? Most news sources say it is $1.5 billion. Yes it is the most expensive earth observation satellite but not the most expensive satellite.

That would be the James Webb Space Telescope. It costs a whopping $11 billion. The next most expensive is the Hubble Space Telescope which originally costed $2 billion dollars to build and costed well over to $10 billion after upgrades & operational costs are taken into account. Then you had...

You mean the SCE-200 upgrade?

Then would it make sense to keep the GSLV Mk3 around until the NGLV is ready and proven?

Please provide news source of statement stating GSLV will be retired. And wil NGLV be ready by that time or is it merely called LVM3 or something like that?

That’s what I am saying. If you want bigger capacity you need to cough up more money to build up these capacities. In order to justify these capacities you have to come up with large orders of launches which requires money. Hence a bigger budget means breaking the chicken egg problem.

Well having a bigger budget can mean breaking the chicken egg thing.

Too slow in my estimation. Need to push for a bigger budget as to speed up the efforts.

That will be most likely the Lunar Gateway. And any ISS-type platform will be built through commercial means. NASA has its own ideas of getting space stations built through private space companies. It wants to commercialize the LEO aspect and concentrate on deep space exploration programs and...

India only has to pay for the one seat. I think SpaceX charge about $65 million per seat. That is not derailing the Gaganyaan program by any stretch of the imagination. As for the space station, ISRO has not even started designing its modules and you are worried about compatibility issues...

Where is the money for it? Besides having exposure to the Artemis program means learning all the nuts and bolts of building a space station without reinventing the wheel. And we can withdraw from the Artemis Accords at any time.

What is all this white stuff coming off the rocket?

I applaud and approve of your cultural sophistication.

Problem with liquid fuel in space is that it is elastic meaning it can expand due to lack of pressure so it needs to stay pressurized in order to function and that carries a weight penalty. Furthermore, it can crystalize in very cold temperature leading to blockage thus necessitating thermal...