{"id":445,"date":"2004-09-28T12:47:56","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T17:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=445"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:21","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:21","slug":"desibots_on_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/28\/desibots_on_the\/","title":{"rendered":"Desibots on the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a tad skeptical, but hey &#8211; <a title=\":: Xinhuanet - English ::\" href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2004-09\/26\/content_2025654.htm\">:: Xinhuanet &#8211; English ::<\/a><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>NEW DELHI, Sept. 26 (Xinhuanet) &#8212; India&#8217;s unmanned moon mission -Chandrayan &#8211; is expected to take place in 2007-08 as it is progressing smoothly, the country&#8217;s space agency chief G. MadhavanNair said here Sunday.\n\n    &#8220;There has been a lot of debate in the scientific community whether we should do this because of the huge cost, but what I would like to say is that the total cost of the project is just Rs.3.8 billion (83 million US dollars),&#8221; Nair, chairman of the IndianSpace Research Organization (ISRO), told reporters.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>$83M USD sounds insanely cheap but Nasa&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.all-science-fair-projects.com\/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia\/Lunar_Prospector>Lunar Prospector<\/a> was done for only $62M so perhaps that&#8217;s the proper ballpark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a tad skeptical, but hey &#8211; :: Xinhuanet &#8211; English :: NEW DELHI, Sept. 26 (Xinhuanet) &#8212; India&#8217;s unmanned moon mission -Chandrayan &#8211; is expected to take place in 2007-08 as it is progressing smoothly, the country&#8217;s space agency &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/28\/desibots_on_the\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}