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The lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1, is entirely an ISRO show. For 3-4 years it has sweated to conceive, script, plan, get the Rs 350-crore project off the ground. So, imagine the Organisation's chagrin when it had to share the credit for its baby with its US counterpart, NASA.

"Chandrayaan is a fully Indian mission. So how come the media are making so much of an MoU and calling it a joint venture and hailing the US and NASA for it?" asked one usually reticent ISRO official. "You in the media have gone truly overboard. All that the US has done is put two instruments on our spacecraft. It's like putting extra passengers."

And where were the same media when the European Space Agency quietly signed a similar MoU for three instruments a few months back, another official asked. "You surely have a US fixation."

But these whimpers apart, ISRO does not seem to keen to set the record straight.

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