NASA Agrees To Cooperate With India On Lunar Mission

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The word "cooperate" is a bit generous, it sounds more like "hitch a ride." Weren't things more like the other way around, once upon a time? Back when we were an actual superpower?

NASA will have two scientific instruments on India's maiden voyage to the moon. Tuesday, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and his counterpart, Indian Space Research Organization Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, signed two Memoranda of Understanding in Bangalore, India, for cooperation on India's Chandrayaan-1 mission.

Chandrayaan-1, a lunar orbiter, is expected to launch in late 2007 or early 2008. It is a truly international mission, with payloads from Europe as well as the United States. NASA's contribution includes the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a NASA Discovery Program mission of opportunity designed to assess mineral resources of the moon. A second NASA instrument, Mini-SAR, will look for ice deposits in the moon's polar regions.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060510093104.htm

[Dead_Parrot]

1. You've got a good memory...

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