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Popeidol [soylentnews.org] writes:

In November, India took the next step in their space program by launching their Mangalyaan mars orbiter [wikipedia.org]. The orbiter won't arrive for a while yet, but they've managed to get some public attention for a different reason — the fact the entire mission costs only 75 million dollars [nytimes.com], substantially less than the budget for the hit movie 'Gravity'.

While the question of wages is bound to come up (it was only 15% of the budget), We can all agree that bringing down the cost of interplanetary spacetravel to a level reachable by the ultrarich is a good step forward.

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