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The Indian Space Research Organisation on Thursday said it has released the first set of data from the country's second mission to the Moon, the Chandrayaan-2, for the general public. Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22, 2019 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The Orbiter which was injected into a lunar orbit on September 2, 2019, carries eight experiments to address many open questions on lunar science. "All experiments have been performing well and the data received suggests excellent capability to deliver on the pre-launch promises," ISRO said. In t...

Easy needs to think again. it is going to be long, drawn out. i worry that the bureaucratic thrashing that will go on will just take away from the more important issues, which are how do we improve war fighting capability, how do we do new technology investments. >> there is a history in the united states of civilian cooperation for certain space projects, the international space station. we have had joint ventures with the russians, chinese. how does that fit into this newer, more adversarial view of what's going on in space? >> as you point out, we have always had scientific civilian endeavo...

Government overall is spending less on space projects? >> yes. the theory is what private enterprise does it will do more efficiently. it will supply the space station more efficiently, therefore more cheaply in the long run than the government would have done it had they had funds available. the answer to your question, gregg, is yes. the hope here is privatization will reduce the cost of supplying the space station and other forms of space travel. gregg: yeah and in the end we're still going to have american astronauts blasting back up in space though with a public/private partnership? >> th...