[devereaux]

_You_ may want that. However, _India_, as the biggest democracy in the world, chose to do a moon landing instead.

What makes you believe you know better about what is best? Unless you are an astrophysicist specialized in economic development (not sure that exists) odds are not in favor of your judgement being the correct one.

[martin_a]

I don´t need to be either of that to see that a country should have an aspiration to provide a certain standard of living (water that is safe to drink, basic health care and lots alike) for everybody before landing things on the moon.

But India has a deeply fucked up society which gives a shit about people from "the bottom" of that society, so I am not really wondered that they do some publicity stunt instead of getting their country fixed.

[mastax]

Yes, and the United States should cut all funding to NASA until power is restored in Puerto Rico.

[lamarpye]

It seems like the cost of this program is a rounding error in India's budget. Getting rid of it won't give the poor water to drink.