Let’s Talk About: Chandrayaan-3, ISRO, and the pros and cons of India’s space programme

Four months after Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the moon, Newslaundry dives into the tricky questions that lie behind it. What are the benefits of a moon mission? Do we need a space programme at all? What does it take to run the Indian Space Research Organisation?

Welcome to Let’s Talk About: ISRO and Chandrayaan, where host Abhinandan Sekhri sits down with EK Kutty, former director (project planning program management) at ISRO, and Jayaram Kolangara, former deputy director at ISRO. They’re joined by subscribers too who got to ask questions during a live Zoom session.

Tune in for a free-wheeling chat on ISRO’s role in development communication, the future of space travel, the efforts of people behind the scenes at ISRO, and a lot more.

Produced by Chanchal Gupta, edited by Chanchal Gupta and Samarendra K Dash.

References

India in Space: Between Utility and Geopolitics by Marco Aliberti

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar

Robert Zemeckis’s Contact

Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity

Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up

Why Civil Rights Activists Protested the Moon Landing

The Moon Landing was Opposed by Majority of US 

List of 6 manned moon missions: People who stepped on the moon after Neil Armstrong 

How Many Times Has the US Landed on the Moon?