Saritha Rai, reporting for the New York Times on India's recent launch of a spacecraft to Mars: "It is the $75 million mission's thrifty approach to time, money and materials that is getting attention. Just days after the launch of India's Mangalyaan satellite, NASA sent off its own Mars mission, five years in the making, named Maven. Its cost: $671 million. The budget of India's Mars mission, by contrast, was just three-quarters of the $100 million that Hollywood spent on last year's space-based hit, Gravity." [NYTimes.com]
India sending spacecraft to Mars for about 75% of 'Gravity' film budget
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