I hope the impoverished and mal-nourished India can first provide
clean drinking water, food, electricity, metal roads and basic health
services to over 800 million of its sub standard people living far
below its poverty line.

God help Russia who chooses India as its technical partner, which can
not even make 100% of a bicycle locally without substantial foreign
assistance and technology transfer. May be you Ruskies can use these
Indy junkies to polish and clean your space vehicle and provide in
flight live entertainment to the astronauts !!!.


(Michael Petukhov) wrote in message . com...
http://lenta.ru/russia/2003/11/12/moon/

(in russian)

Today russia's agency for aviation and space research and india's
organization for space research signed a deal to prepare
joint automatic and manned missions to Moon by 2008.

Michael