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

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Vithal vyas said:   1 decade ago
Hi friends.

Today world has become totaly unpredictable number of nutral clamity occuring now has suddenly increases in such scenerio it becums important for us that we shuld try to know about there occuerence before they occurs. And since by spending on such research we get weather report, clamity alarms. This why developed countries are also spending huge amount of there money on such rescearch.
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Abhay said:   1 decade ago
Space mission is not always wastage of money. Unless it is for education, entertainment.

Now using technology we can easily get the weather report, and also about like tsunami or any volcano. But if we use our money just for knowing that how the surface of moon. Then it is totally wastage of money as well as time. Usa or others country are doing so our nation is also doing this. But this type of space mission is not good for our nation where max people belongs to middle class or below poverty line.

As we know usa or other western country are rich so they can easily think about space mission and complete it. For a space mission almost 450 million usa dollar is spent this is a very large amount of money for country like India. We should know about latest technology but we should not waste our money like this. As we know oue country already spend a large amount of money on defence and if also spend large amount on space mission it will harm our economical condition.
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Ruudvireddy said:   1 decade ago
As think of my serlf spaceship technology is very use full technology, why because in prasent day world is almost depend on satellite. Its not a wastage of money. By using this we improve our technical skills.
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Jaskaran said:   1 decade ago
Space missions are not a wastage of resources.As we all know about space mission CHANDRA YAAN-1,we get a lot of information about moon.Even the NASA admits that this mission really disclosed the secret about water on the moon.Similarly missions like this or missions related to communication, satellite will really help us.Missions like that will help us to compete with the developed countries like USA.
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Meenakshi said:   1 decade ago
Our former President A.P.J Abual Kalam gave us mission 2020,which stand to see India a developed nation by 2020.On this path of development satellite and space technology plays a major role. It provide advance information in telecommunication (3G), whether forecasting ,space research & many more. Government is spending huge amount on space mission .Our organizations like DRDO ,ISRO etc are working hard achieve the goals.
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Srikanth Seelam said:   1 decade ago
Indian space research organization (ISRO) is one of the big six advance space agencies in the world.
Vast development of the Tele-communication systems, wheatear forecasting systems, Television & Media Networks, Tele-Medicine, Tele-Education, Internet, GPS are few fruitful products of space research in the country. It also enhancing & supporting our defense forces.
The development in these areas will have a greater impact in overall development of the nation directly or in-directly also which lead us to improve our standards of living. So money spent on space research is not waste besides it is essential to allocate little more on it.
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Rohit said:   1 decade ago
Space missions are very important for many sectoral growths as defence, education, research communication. I don't feel it's wastage of money if it spend in this areas.

But funding the money for Mars and moon missions just to study surface properties and structure of that planet I don't feel its of any help. It's just like following the crowd. As NASA doing it we will also do it. I feel its wastage of money if used for such project.
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Sudhanshu said:   1 decade ago
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.
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Jayaranjan said:   1 decade ago
Space Missions are not a wastage of resources,but the money spent on the missions should not be from the pocket of the common man, it should be taken from the acount holders of swiss bank so that it can be used for the constructive purpose and if it is done our nation should march ahead with out any doubt and it should be taken up to prove our strength and make others silent.
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Val said:   1 decade ago
It is important to find out what is the motive behind the mission.

-if we are doing it for development of country like may be a communication satellite or a weather information satellite then it is good for development.

However if we are doing some research outcome of which may not have impact on our growth then it could be a wastage of resource. In such cases we can collaborate with developed countries for joint research that way reducing cost and achieving the goal.
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