Book Review: Why Mars – NASA and the Politics of Space Exploration
Author: W. Henry Lambright Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press – 320 pages Book Review by: Paiso Jamakar News came out recently, to everyone’s surprise, that an Indian spacecraft recently reached Mars. On September 24, 2014, the Mangalyaan began orbiting around that planet. It had been launched on November 5, 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Thus India became the fourth country to begin exploring Mars after Russia, the United States and the European Union. What is remarkable is that India succeeded on its first...
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