The fates met by two small robots on the surface of the moon tell the stories of shifting international politics on their planet of origin.
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India’s Chandrayaan-3 module succeeded last week in landing the first lunar rover to explore the moon’s southern polar region, where signs of water as ice have driven new scientific interest. The moment, after a countdown that evoked the lofty ambitions and high nationalism of last century’s space race, captured the attention of a nation eager for an uncontroversial triumph on the world stage.
India carried out its expedition on a relatively shoestring budget of $74 million, far cheaper than making the Hollywood sci-fi epic “Interstellar” — a sign that the prestige and soft power of space exploration do not require the funding or ambitions of NASA to achieve a high impact or to accrue the prestige that has always motivated such exploration. Russia didn’t publicize its mission budget, but by some estimates, it was more than double India’s.
India’s mission marks a soft-power win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as New Delhi prepares to host the
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