India is the First Country to Land at the Moon's South Pole

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https://www.engadget.com/india-is-the-first-country-to-land-at-the-moons-south-pole-133322596.html

What is India's Next Space Mission After the Moon Landing?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/what-is-indias-next-space-mission-after-moon-landing-2023-08-25/

I find it baffling that many countries to this day continue to send funds to India in the form of aid money. Meanwhile, India goes to the moon.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/14/uk-gives-india-23bn-aid-despite-pledge-stop-handouts/

They went to the moon for $75M.

I think that's incredibly impressive.

Just imagine what India could have achieved if they didn't get colonised?

Looks like the space race of the Sixties is reviving. But this time it will be two Asian nations taking the lead (India, and China) instead of the US and the now defunct Soviet Union who were sprinting to the moon the other time.

The US, the European Union, and maybe Japan, might start to get more active in space in the rear guard soon. Russia has squandered its rescources on Putin's war on Ukraine so it wont be in the space race for a while.

It is indeed inexpensive.

India are a middle income country, so they have done well to go to the moon.

Each Apollo shot cost us 13 billion in 1969 dollars. But ours were manned, and we were pioneering the whole thing by doing it first time. But even so thats hard to believe that even India could do it THAT cheap.

Are you talking about the colonial period?

You are using a false equivalency.

India giving involuntary aid during a period of time where barely anybody had electricity, or when nobody had electricity and when the British empire was essentially controlling overseas countries from the British mainland, is completely different from Britain donating money to India in a time period where India is an independent, middle-income country who are sending rockets into space.

It is a voluntary arrangement and there is no need of it.

NASA's Lunar Orbiter Spots India's Historic Landing Site On the Moon

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-spots-indias-historic-landing-site-on-the-moon-1850808063