Mark Wadsworth: "India Moon probe ready for launch"

Tuesday 21 October 2008

£825 million of UK taxpayers' finest is enough to pay for 18.333 of these:

Anonymous said...: Even more of a kick in the teeth is my IT job will soon be outsourced to India.; 21 October 2008 at 15:48
Anonymous said...: I don't in any way object to India building space probes - if humanity is to have a future somebody has to. However if we spent that £825m on X-Prizes for orbital spceplanes we would do humanity a lot more good, & ourselves too. On the other hand India is certainly more deserving than ESA & this wouldn't cover 3 years of our budget contribution to them.; 22 October 2008 at 12:16
Mark Wadsworth said...: NC, agreed, at £45 million a pop, it seems quite good value. Just not necessarily for the UK taxpayer.; 22 October 2008 at 12:18

Tuesday 21 October 2008