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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-29-09 05:53 AM
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Indian moon mission eclipsed by Apollo 11 anniversary
India's successful lunar landing and continuing mineral exploration is especially sweet for a nation that numbers the moon among its gods.




While the world has been gripped by nostalgia for the Apollo 11 landing - the culmination of the first manned mission to the moon, which took place 40 years ago this week - India has quietly been completing its own lunar mission.

The sub-continental nation launched its voyage to the stars on October 22 last year, becoming the fifth to do so, after the USA, Russia, China and Japan..cont'd

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/5885930/Indian-moon-mission-eclipsed-by-Apollo-11-anniversary.html
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