BBC News - Mangalyaan: Will India's Mars mission reach the orbit?
Look, I'm not one who would argue that you never have a space program until you eliminate your own country's (or the world's) poverty. (I heard a lot of that type of talk at the time of the Apollo program - but I think that virtually all idealists of the 60's have since realised that solving poverty is not simply a matter of the rich West sending its money overseas.)
However, India, a country where the WHO says more than 600 million people are without access to adequate sanitation (read - toilets of any variety) perhaps does deserve a bit of a re-organisation of priorities.
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