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India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing
(www.theguardian.com)
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Over 40 million Americans are living below the poverty line (12 million of those are children), that's 12% of the population of the country. To compare and contrast India's got 150 million people living below the poverty line with a population of 1.4 billion, that's 10% of their population. Yet we spend $33 billion on our space program. For those playing at home India's moon landing cost around $75 million.
To pull the poverty card on India for starting a space program that is lifting up their people's national self worth is just about the most imperialist thing you could do.