India’s Chandrayaan-3 probe successfully lands on the lunar South Pole

[meetpateltech]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/23/23842669/chandrayaan3-india-moon-mission-successful-lunar-south-pole

[isaacfrond]

A great succes for India, and hopefully a lasting impetus for space exploration.

Interestingly, I'm told that the costs of the lunar mission ($75 Mn) are much lower than the movie ‘Interstellar’ [0]

0: https://inc42.com/features/chandrayaan-3-touchdown-a-proud-m...

[falcor84 → isaacfrond]

Conversely, it was much more expensive than the movie `Moon`, which reportedly only cost $5M [0].

[0]https://www.wrapbook.com/blog/moon-2009

[kaycey2022 → isaacfrond]

I don't know why Indians gloat over such BS comparisons. The only thing this says is that you can make lowball offers to quality Indian engineering talent and thats ok. It shows a lack of self respect.