To the moon, inexpensive: the Indian mission cost half the price of the movie "Interstellar"

India this week became the fourth country in history to walk on the Moon and the first to land on its South Pole. As it turned out, the Chandrayaan-3 mission cost the country about $75 million.

Journalists drew Note that the historic launch budget was less than some Hollywood space blockbusters. So, "Gravity" (2013) cost $ 100 million, "Martian"(2015) - 108 million dollars. Interstellar (2014) cost twice as much - $165 million.

What’s more, India spent even less this year than in 2019 on a similar mission called Chandrayaan 2, which ultimately ended in failure. It cost 30% more - about $96 million. At the same time, Indian engineers previously noted that many of the knowledge and technologies gained during the previous launch were used this time as well.

But what the price of the third Indian mission is comparable to is the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. On the SpaceX website specifiedthat it costs 67 million dollars.

Recall that the Indian automatic interplanetary station Chandrayaan-3 made a soft landing at the South Pole of the Moon on August 23 and even

sent first photo. The Pragyan rover is expected to operate there for at least two weeks. During this time, India expects to find water ice on our satellite.