Not even posted here much, India is a strategic competitor to China. This landing was solely aimed at China to keep India 'in the game', ala 'US vs Soviets'. Ironically, the video quality echoes the laughable quality of that from China during their first spacewalk.
Better question: Why is the US spending lavishly on the ukes when there are tens of thousands of homeless veterans in the US under a government which must skew reporting totals out of some perverted motivation to project progress on the glaring symptom of bad governance?
“Not even posted here much, India is a strategic competitor to China. This landing was solely aimed at China to keep India ‘in the game’, ala ‘US vs Soviets’. Ironically, the video quality echoes the laughable quality of that from China during their first spacewalk.”
My guesses..
1. National Pride.
2. The people/ nation that writes all of the computer code, for just about everything just sucessfully proved itself a space faring nation.
3. They have a massive pool of highly educated people. They prove they are on par with all of the “developed” nations.
4. Because Pakistan Can’t.
“Better question:” why are you trying to derail a thread about India by dragging in Ukraine?