Space Missions are a Wastage of Resources for a Resource-Starved Nation like India

India got independence way back in 1947, still our country is considered as developing country. This is because of faulty govt policies. Not only space missions, any kind of Research and Development needs money/resources which are usually do not give any profit in the form we need. Our govt should give more importance in creating jobs which will eradicate poverty. The govt should also consider giving less importance to foreign companies which are set up in India in the name giving jobs. In reality India is slowly depending on other country. I worked in a space mission center, I can tell that the so called scientists are not at all that knowledgeable as they are portrayed. They are well payed for not doing anything. They do get all kind of benefits and they do no job at all. And the central govt increase the DA at regular intervals. Most of us do not know the working of satellites, only we watch the launch. Most the satellites do not work as they should do. For layman, one can say, launch was successful means, the launcher worked perfectly, the products which are inside it need not necessarily work. Even if it worked, most of the projects are total waste. Example the chandrayaan. What we have got are photographs. These photographs we be got from NASA site by paying 5 rupees in internet cafe. Someone has mentioned in one of the posting here, that space machines help in forewarning of natural calamities and other planetary collisions, it is ridiculous to think. No scientist gave any clue about tsunami which hit Tamil Nadu. Many earth quakes happens bringing loss of property, no scientific organization have slightest clue about them. If a planet is going to hit, it will most probably destroy the whole earth. It won't hit only India. Even if you consider it will hit India, what are the chances of knowing it beforehand, as our scientists do not have any knowledge of other natural happenings like rain, storm etc. To conclude, all space machines should be slow down. The salary and remunerations enjoyed by these employees should be reduced (They do not deserve even 10 percent of their current salary as they lack knowledge of anything). It is even better if all this organization is shut down permanently.

Hello Friends, I would like to patronize the people who said that space missions are not a wastage of resources. I would like to provide a solid exposition for this statement. Space is not an encumbered subject to study, it has no defined boundaries, There are a lot more things to be explored. And space is just not mere squandering which leads to nothing. Space research has many pros which outweigh its cons.

1) We can expect to find water on Mars, which would open a new era of life for humans. Moreover because of the global warming we cannot rely on the conjecture that earth is going to survive for million more years, and if we do not have any other option we would seriously be in a predicament.

So space research and alternate options for life seems a pretty good rationale for spending on space research.

2) As of poverty, Unemployment and other problems, These can be tackled by getting rid of corruption as our leaders have blocked money more than what we spend on space research. So to ameliorate things we have to uproot corruption. Moreover the govt is ready to provide enough help to the poor, but the help is not able to reach the impoverished sections of the society only because of the corrupt.

3) Also, Space research gives as a social stature in the world of cut-throat competition. It will make the world see that we are capable of creating avant-garde inventions.

4) As many of you have already mentioned, Space research helps in weather forecasting, thus making us less prone to the damage of the most hazardous disasters. It will assist us in saving millions of lives and resources worth millions.

5) It is important for us to know about our universe. Example. Because now we know about the sun and its properties, we can avoid sunburns. Now we know about rotations and revolutions, we are able to set our standard times.

So when we interpret the above information we can clearly make out that space research is advantageous. It provides us with a great array of other resources.

I think investing our resources and investment in space research is not wastage for Indian as we can see that Indian space agency ISRO is giving very tough competitions to other space agencies by developing satellite launching vehicles like PSLV and GSLV etc. We have developed remote sensing satellites like IRS 1-C and IRS-ID which are among the best in the world for proving high resolution data to the user communities anywhere in the world even countries like USA, Russia, China, Japan and France are too using these satellites.

I would like to mention Chandrayaan-1 which was developed and launched by ISRO has confirmed that water exists on the moon and successful mission of Mangalyaan has showed India's achievements towards space research to the world. If you know that Chandrayaan is the first moon satellite in the world which has successfully reached to the mars in first attempt.

The chairperson of ISRO Dr. K Kasturirangan has projected a significant lowering of space research costs in the country in the next few decades. While the cost of positioning 1Kg material in the space was around 20, 000$ it was presaged that the same cost will come down to 5,000$ and would be 500$ in around 2030 so my point is that if our ISRO scientists has ability to developed such portable vehicles to reduce the cost of launching vehicles then why should not we invest in Space exploration.

We should not we invest a minimum amount of 200 crores for our space programs while our programs are being successful. As our country is moving very fast towards a developed country and almost all developed countries are investing a lot on their space programs and even they have had achieved so many success in their programs so we have to keep investing in space exploration programs because we have to be ahead in all aspects to become a real developed country.

For a country to be developed wholly, it has to grow at rapid pace in all fields and we can't hold the progress in one field (space mission) and wait that we first solve basic problem of education, health, illiteracy, poverty and then spent our resources on space mission.

It's not that because of huge money allocation in space missions we are lagging on other front, but a sufficient money has been allocated in those fields also and if properly utilized it would alleviate the social, economic problems India is confronting with. But because of our corruption-ridden system the money remains unutilised and we progress at slower rate.

In fact any advancement in science and technology helps to solve the basic problems of humankind. Advancement in space missions is no exception. For eg-:

A) space missions help solve communications infrastructure problems. It is because of this only we are advancing in mobile communication which has well connected our villages with towns. Now mobile has reached even the remotest of the villages. Farmers because of that know the prices in offing at towns, without being depending on the middleman's.

B) We can forecast weather and natural disturbances on time and can stave-off any chances to be affected by any impending natural calamity. So, money spent on space missions are helping to reduce the loss due to natural disaster also. There are many more examples.

So, if we look at the main problem which is bothering, then it is the failure of missions which costs us heavily. So, we can increase the collaboration with other countries space agencies and perfect our technical knowhow to avoid such fallout.

I think we need to think about India, its size of economy, IISRO' s annual budget and the space launch market together. There is no point criticizing something without taking the whole picture. Indian economy is approximately 1.9 billion trillion dollars. , Indians food security bill passed this session of parliament is of 19 billion dollars per annum. The recently announced statue of unity being built in Gujarat is worth 200 million dollars. The international space launch market annually is around 10 billion dollars. Mars mission costs 70 million dollars. Plus it gives our educated youth a sense of pride and self confidence on being an Indian, and demonstrates to our potential launch customers our advanced space launch and navigation capabilities. Even economically its worth every penny, and other than that there is no argument against it.

Lastly, just one more example to clear it up. During late nineties when our country invested in information technology, I remember people full of pessimism commenting we need toilets more than computers, we need to concentrate on poverty rather than computers! IT accounts for 160 billion dollars of annual trade for India. It gives jobs to millions and food to the poor. Lets support our countries scientists wholeheartedly. There are better times to come.

To consider space program as a waste of money and resources would be a hasty assumption. ISRO has been continuously focusing its research on remote sensing, meteorological satellites, navigation satellites and telecommunications satellites.

These technological advancements have helped the people of the country in more ways than one. Telecom satellites provide cellphone services to every corner of the country. Remote Sensing satellites recognize the presence of resources in different locations.

Let me give you an example. In 1999 due to the super cyclone that hit the east coast of India, 10000 people perished. In 2013, a cyclone of even greater destructive force called the Palin hit the eastern coast. But this time there were only 23 deaths.

There are several reasons for this.

First, meteorological satellites by ISRO provided accurate data on the severity and movement of the storm.

Satellite phones used by disaster management teams helped in ease of communication during times of distress. These phones were dependent on the Telecom satellites in orbit.

Locations that would be more likely to be flooded were recognised and marked with the help of cartography satellites.

Thus we realise that even for the common man Space is a profitable and useful venture.

According to me, space missions are important, we are not wasting economy in space missions, with the help of space missions we are demonstrating that we are capable of doing any type of things. We are count in developing country but still, we have our own GPS system. And if we want to compete with other countries like china and USA they are well-developed country, even they can change their weather, that time we have to do other things like space missions etc. Our president also in a favour that space missions are imp for our country. With the satellite, we can easily connect to peoples on internet. And we can forecast the msg if any calamities occur. And it is beneficial for the defense sector like surgical strike,

SOMEONE SAID THAT MANGALYAN MISSION IS USELESS. I think your mind in your knees. You know very well. Today population increases rapidly. Suppose people have no place to live that if MARS have a life that time we can shift to mars. If India will not participate in such kind of missions in future other countries will hold of every place in another planet. Many people now thinking that this will not happen and this is impossible to do. But everything is possible. Thank you, everyone.

Friends I think judging space research as a profit or loss venture is not an appreciable thing. We belong to a diversified nation. It is not only space missions but it applies to general chemical pharmacies where profit is considered secondary to welfare of society. Coming back to our topic, if space research was a wastage we would have been in a belief of eclipse may be due to raahu and kethu. As someone are complaining here about corruption our ISRO is out of it, because every single compartment of a space shuttle is made by some organisation in disguise and are assembles by ISRO. Where all the technical strategies are kept secret. If you observe our recent achievements in space wing we met failure only for 2 out of 5 times. And all of them being in collaboration with other countries. I may say we human beings have traced places like Bermuda triangle because of space research. Think we are to hit by a meteoroid, we are helpless. But because of recent developments, we have laser cutting devices placed outside our atmosphere hence we are safe.

Finally, what I want to say is noting all the past, present and future space research, I would say considering this a wastage will be a disaster.

Hello everyone,

First of all, we will see what is meaning of triple talaq, talaq is an Arabic word that means divorce, actually, triple talaq is pronouncing of talaq word three times by means of orally or written and in the Islamic community by doing this Muslim men's can give divorce to their wives without their consent. As it is legal in their community so Muslim women can't do anything they become helpless after this triple talaq. But nowadays in the digital world Muslim men are misusing this triple talaq they are using SMS, WhatsApp, etc digital apps to give talaq which is very illegal.

So, in July 2019 Indian parliament passed a bill for Muslim women bill (protection of rights on marriage) as a law to protect Muslim women's rights making triple talaq an offence of crime.

Triple talaq is banned in 23 countries including India. The first country was Egypt who banned this triple talaq.

It is a very vital step taken by the government to ban triple talaq as it was defeating article 14 of the Indian constitution. Every Indian have the right to live his life. So by banning triple talaq Muslim women's rights are protected.

If the ministers and political leaders are really invested the money for our country in such a way that each and every field can developed properly then our country do much better in every position. There is a chance to compete with other countries in space, science and technology, because I think we are very intelligent respected to other countries.

But unfortunately the top level ministers just do not invested the money properly, however they kept it in their "pocket". They just think about their sons and daughters and for these people our country is only a developing country in world.

Space mission is one of the greatest achievement a country can achieve. And if among all the countries there is a name "INDIA", it will be a great honor for us. However, there is a space center presents in India called "ISRO" at sriharikota. But still there are lot of improvements needed in space department in our country.

For this, the system need to change much more and the young generation must come forward for betterment of space mission in India.