The Indians are making a moonshot.
No, not the American Indians! The <i>Indian</i> Indians! According to <a target="_blank" href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-09/26/content_2025654.htm">this article on XinhuaNet</a>, in English, the Indian space agency is planning an unmanned moon mission, called Chandrayan. Chandrayan is expected to take place in 2007-08 if everything proceeds as planned, which it seems to be. If they do it, India will be on the cusp of being a real world power on the scale of the US, China, and Russia. As few ethnicities as we've seen in science-fiction, other than WASPs, that is, it's interesting to me that the Chinese and Indians have become so space oriented lately. I really hope that writers take note of this and alter their views accordingly. One of the notable exceptions has been <A target="_blank" HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312860986/fantasistnet">China Mountain Zhang</A> by Maureen F. McHugh and <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440207614/fantasistnet">Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom</A>, which is the first in a series by the same name, all by David Wingrove. I'd love to see more of it.
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