Asia's extraterrestrial ambitions have rocketed from nowhere in the 50 years since the first human space flight, with China shooting for the moon while India and Japan fuel up their own programmes. India has focused on money-making space ventures rather than manned space exploration, with high-performance Earth observation and telecommunications systems... with a logistics system on the ground to process the data that works very well. China lags about five years behind India in such areas, but has made major investments to quickly bridge the gap. Read More