Every time the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announces a new outer space mission, a cry is raised—from a segment typically identified only as “critics”—about the “unaffordability” of such missions for a “poor” country like India. Here is a typical example:
Critics of the Indian Mars mission wondered whether the country can afford huge costs for this space voyage.
As usual the critics are not identified, and the criticism is in terms of a fuzzy notion of “huge” costs. (Un)fortunately for the critics, a simple check of publicly available statistics would have been enough to allay fears of unaffordability.
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