[Farmerbob]

[Why should we help India...]

“...receive telemetry from the spacecraft and forward it...”

Why wouldn’t we? We get free access to the data they collect. Plus they will owe us a favor. Win win.

[IndianChief]

There is a lot more cooperation. The first presence of water on the moon was detected by a NASA instrument carried aboard Chandrayaan-1 . Even this mission carries a NASA instrument, probably the one which is used to measure the exact distance to the earth.

@Reno You can rant and rave all you want but the Soviets and the French and then the Russians helped the Indian Space programme . Nothing was "stolen", as you put it, from NASA.

Americas biggest contribution to the Indian space programme after 1971 was to force the Russians to stop selling Cryogenic engines to India forcing India to develop them on its own, with "retired" Russian scientists pitching in.