Sigh. It is amazing how myopic we get seeing a different place. It reminds me of that NYT cartoon which was in poor taste. I can see some reasons why India woul

Sigh. It is amazing how myopic we get seeing a different place. It reminds me of that NYT cartoon which was in poor taste. I can see some reasons why India would want to do this. - They can use the technology developed during these missions for powering commercial space operations(It is an extremely lucrative market, moneywise). They have a commercial arm.[1] - They have their own use of satellites as well like remote sensing, navigation(I think it is called NAVIC) etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antrix_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antrix_Corporation