India, July 16 -- Just because Chandrayaan 2 , India's most ambitious space mission yet, was called off less than an hour before blast-off, doesn't mean that it has failed, dented our space programme or our global competitiveness. Considering that this mission had too much at stake, involving a moon landing on its southern side and a rover to map the surface and something which even Israel failed at just a while ago, it was better to err on the side of caution. Judging by the fact that a successful blastoff, the most spectacular of the launch procedure, does not in any way guarantee the larger trajectory of any satellite or lunar module, means that pre-checks have to be foolproof and any technical snag has to be looked at with the microsc...