India follows the economic policies it enacted in the 90s from the beginning of independence, while China stays Maoist. India becomes the workshop of the world, and rapidly develops. Large investment in education and technology occurs. The Space Race goes as OTL, with most of the major stuff petering off by the 1970s. India, by the 1980s, is one of the largest economic and military powers in the world, and wants make its mark as a new superpower. It decides to launch a space program and show it is not an undeveloped country, as the other two superpowers have been so fond of treating it as. It begins a serious space program in the mid-1970s, and launches three two-man missions to the Moon in the early 1980s, and follows up on this and founds a semi-permanent Moon base for six astronauts by the late 1980s.