Pardon the jingoism, but a moon landing is a big effin deal. [BBC]
India’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft, Chandrayaan 1, has placed a probe on the surface of the Moon. The probe, painted with the Indian flag, touched down at 2034 (1504 GMT), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.
How effective was the news coverage over here in the US? To use an euphemism, not very. While the BBC has quickly latched on to this news, at the time of posting, the major cable news channels CNN, MSNBC and FoxNews are blissfully unaware of any such event. The network news channels haven’t fared much better either.
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