news.bbc.co.uk - 10/22/2008
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India has successfully launched its first mission to the Moon. The unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft blasted off smoothly from a launch pad in southern Andhra Pradesh to embark on a two-year mission of exploration. The robotic probe will orbit the Moon, compiling a 3-D atlas of the lunar surface ...
news.yahoo.com - 10/21/2008
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NEW DELHI Scientists have better maps of distant
Mars than the moon where astronauts have walked. But...
India hopes to change that with its first lunar mission. Chandrayaan-1 which means "Moon Craft" in ancient Sanskrit is scheduled to launch from ...
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India readies 1st moon mission in Asian space race - ...
washingtonpost.com - 10/16/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
SPECIAL REPORTS & MULTIMEDIA Blasts Hit Trains Hundreds
were killed or wounded in a series of bomb...
blasts that rocked Mumbai. (Photo gallery) Related Article Related Audio Window Into A New Economy A city near Mumbai illustrates the clash between ...
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Country Guide: INDIA (washingtonpost.com)
propublica.org - 10/25/2008
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propublica.org —
As AIG was on the brink of bankruptcy
and facing a government takeover, the insurance giant made...
sure Congress knew where it stood on U.S.-India nuclear relations, that is. AIG deployed its lobbyists to Washington last month to influence a bill that ...
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AIG Lobbied for India Nuke Deal (Really!)
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Via the BBC: India launches first Moon mission
The unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft blasted off smoothly from a launch pad in southern Andhra Pradesh to embark on a two-year mission of exploration.
The robotic probe will orbit the Moon, compiling a 3-D atlas of the lunar surface and mapping the distribution of elements and minerals.
The launch is regarded as a major step for India as it seeks to keep pace with other space-faring nations in Asia.
Cool.
The New Space Race - in Asia
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... India just launched an unmanned mission to the Moon, where its probe is set to join those launched by Japan and China. China, of course, recently ...
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India Joins Space Race —
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Yet another Asian country joined the race for (the exploration of) space Wednesday: India successfully launched a two-year mission today. The goal of the mission is to study the surface of the moon.
Chandrayaan-1, or “moon craft” in ancient Sanskrit, was launched at 6:20 AM local ...
India Prepares Moon Launch —
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NEW DELHI -- India was preparing to launch its first unmanned space ship to the moon early Wednesday, part of an effort to assert its power in space and claim some of the business opportunities out there.
The launch of Chandrayaan-1, as the vehicle is called (it means, roughly translated, ...
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