India and China open doors for Global South in space competition

CHENNAI, India/DALIAN, China -- If you visit the startup Agnikul Cosmos at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, one of India's top science universities, you will be told: "Please take off your shoes and turn off your mobile phone, or set it to airplane mode." Then you will be guided to a room with a giant 3D printer, where operators are printing a small rocket.