Comments on: Bad news for would-be first Indian space tourists

By: AJITH

AJITH — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:45:00 +0000

Well, definately santhosh is going to space…see his training schedules etc…Its going to be great for India…

By: Avdhesh

Avdhesh — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:43:43 +0000

If Jay is flying to space then its good thing for india.

By: Charles Phillips

Charles Phillips — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:18:25 +0000

India has quite an industry fabricating space stories – the 20 year old kid (Arnab Kakoti) who was heading up a project for NASA. They have a lot more enthusiasm than accuracy.

By: Indian Millionaut Under Investigtion for Tax Fraud at Parabolic Arc

Indian Millionaut Under Investigtion for Tax Fraud at Parabolic Arc — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:58:44 +0000

[…] apparently did not catch him at the office. Santhosh was away exploring Antarctica when the raids […]

By: Charles Lurio

Charles Lurio — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:59:46 +0000

Well, you can look at it from a different perspective:

-Nether of them is as bad as Bernie Madoff.

-Probably India is a lot more business-friendly than Obamerica. For that matter China has no capital gains taxes. zip. zero. So we should be looking for a lot more legit investors and passengers from those countries, when they catch up with New Space notions, which may be a few years yet.

Even if China is more capitalist than we are now, it _is_ an authoritarian country. Though Obama is working to catch up, so we can have the worst of both worlds.