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India reached Mars on a shoestring budget. So why is sending astronauts into low Earth orbit demanding over a billion dollars and a decade of waiting? The answer reveals how the Indian space agency operates differently from every other global counterpart. An agency famous for reaching the Red Planet on its maiden attempt, spending less than the cost of a Hollywood blockbuster, has spent the last decade building a capsule to go just 400 kilometres above Earth. The budget for t