Houston! Did You Just OutSource?

Well, well, well! US outsourcing to India is reaching new heights! The height is no where within earth's atmosphere, if you think of it literally :).

As a matter of fact, NASA just did that. We are not talking about more call centers or computer specific. The job is to deliver US technical instruments to moon. India's Chandrayaan-1, the unmanned moon mission planned for early 2008 will be taking two of US's moon research instruments to outer space. Well, for more specifics on the instruments, check out Financial Times. At the same time, I can't stop from mentioning how that article is very apt for 'Financial Times' (with the required finance ingredients) - How a developing country like India with 260Million population below poverty line is spending like 89Million US dollars for such space missions and how Prime Minister Dr.Singh reacts to such queries!

It is not just US. Besides 11 Indian, Chandrayaan-1 will carry like 3 more instruments from European Space Agency & one from Bulgaria! Go India! Looks like the Whole World is behind you to take ourselves closer to Moon!

For current terms, this is great from Indian Perspective compared to that of China's moon missions in 2007 & 2012. But in future terms, is India planning to launch a Manned Mission anytime soon? (Especially after realizing/considering that there is no space for an Indian Astronaut in US Space Shuttle for next four years as reported by NASA a day before!)