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Indian space launch cheaper than "Gravity" Empty Indian space launch cheaper than "Gravity"

Post by Merlot Daruwala Mon Jun 30, 2014 7:47 am

"I have heard about the film Gravity. I am told the cost of sending an Indian rocket to space is less than the money invested in making the Hollywood movie," Modi added.

The budget of the British-American 3D sci-fi thriller, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, was about $100 million, according to industry website IMDb.

Last year, India launched a bid to become the first Asian nation to reach Mars with a mission whose price tag was the envy of space
programmes world-wide. The total cost at 4.5 billion rupees ($73 million) was less than a sixth of the $455 million earmarked for a Mars probe launched shortly afterwards by US space agency NASA.


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-india-hails-rocket-cheaper-hollywood.html#jCp
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