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India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They put a rover on the moon.

This is much more similar to the Mars rovers than to Apollo. Those were still much more expensive than this was. Although for understandable reasons like cost of living in US vs India and salary differences.

Manned missions are more expensive in part because humans and human life support is really heavy. The Saturn V is still the most powerful rocket ever launched. Those things were expensive.