Open this photo in gallery: A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome, in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Aug. 11.ROSCOSMOS/Reuters
The space race India aims to win this week by landing first on the moon’s south pole is about science, the politics of national prestige and a new frontier: money.
India’s boom, Russia’s crunch: How money is shaping a new space race comes via ChinaTechNews.com.