As Chandrayaan successfully landed near the Moon's southern pole, establishing India's pioneering achievement in this regard, Twitter users resurfaced the old cartoon and tagged the New York Times, suggesting that it was time for a new perspective.
India has a busy decade of space exploration ahead. S. Somanath, the director of the Indian Space Research Organization, has described the current moment as an inflection point, as the country opens its space programs to private investors after a half-century of state monopoly that made advances but at "a shoestring budget mode of working."
The Indian space agency is all set to land its probe, which was made at a fraction of the budget of recent Hollywood blockbusters, on the surface of the Moon, a task that has historically had a low success rate.