Has the recession had any effect?
"(Laughs) Yes. Now everybody wants to join the ISRO. I don't know if it is the revised salaries for the government scientists or the moon mission. But a lot of people are now applying."
"That's a good thing, considering pure science and research were never considered attractive career options."
"See, there should always be application for any good thing. Merely publishing papers may be a good thing academically, but finally there has to be something quantifiable. When people see that there is a direct use to science, there is more belief."
Image: A picture of the moon's surface taken by the Moon Impact Probe on November 14, 2008 as it approached the Lunar surface, after separating from Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. | Photograph, courtesy: ISRO
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