No Lunar Landings For The Indians

At least no time soon, or affordably:

Theo Pirard, who attended the conference, discovered the projected plan of the Indian manned Mission on the Moon, which is the result of recent feasibility studies made by ISRO. This plan offers some similarities with the US Constellation programme for the return to the Moon but no date could be announced, because of lack of money.

Yes, the main similarity is that they think that in order to go to the moon, you have to replicate Apollo. We’ll see how these long-term plans evolve in the years to come when the reusables start flying, and Bigelow is doing lunar excursion using depots.

3 thoughts on “No Lunar Landings For The Indians”

  1. Since RLLs are considerably easier (technologically) than RLVs that would be a great place to start. And, EML-1 / EML-2 are the best places to park those RLLs.

    If the Indians really want to put people on the Moon, maybe the ISRO could be one of the customers for those RLLs.

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