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India has become the newest player in space beyond Earth orbit. The Indian designed and built Chandrayaan-1 successfully launched today carrying 11 scientific payloads, destined for Lunar orbit. India's future plans include launching Chandrayaan-2 by 2012 to land an automated rover on the Moon, launching a manned mission by 2015, and a manned Moon mission by 2020.
Do I hear any bets India has astronauts on the Moon before the US makes it back there?
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Back in around 1978-1979, an Indian programmer I was working with at the Directorate of Statistics in Bahrain told me that "In 25 years India will be the world center for programmers. We will have hundreds of software houses operating out of tax-free zones in places like Bombay and Bangalore. We have the people. We work for less than you overpaid Europeans and Americans. Economic necessity will send the business to us." He was almost right, there aren't hundreds of back street COBOL programming shops, but they've got the tech support and customer service business sewn up.