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Post by MulaiAzhagi Sat Aug 04, 2012 12:14 am

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/08/03/prestige_projects_why_big_countries_waste_money.html

One reason is that small countries have less incentive to waste resources on prestige schemes. India, for example, can't keep electricity on in major cities but is planning to land a rover on Mars next year. If India was small, it would just be a small poor country trying to improve its shaky domestic infrastructure. But since India is big, it has great power aspirations notwithstanding its poverty. So they want to have a space program.

===> Space program is not politicized. An organization left alone to do their thing.

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