India, China and space-race
China launched an unmanned space laboratory. That's an impressive feat. That's also a thing of concern for India which is China's closest competitor. China hopes to have a fully functional space station by the end of the decade. If China achieves this feat then it will share the space with the US and Russia. The question is will India too join these three nations in the space race? Will China be at the forefront of space exploration in the future? These things are left to be seen.
Not that India is lagging behind in the matter of space programme. In fact, The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has succeeded in launching several satellites in space successfully. But if ISRO doesn't come up very soon with a space programme that will bring India on par with China, India might find itself far behind China in the near future.
India will need to invest heavily in space programme. India must focus on strengthening its economy to be able to invest in space missions.
China is seeing dreams of putting its man on the moon. India should not allow the widening of technological gap between it and China. Would it be wise on the part of Indian government to ignore those people who question the logic of beefing up the space programme by diverting funds away from social projects? But India government realizes that India should compulsorily be able to match China technologically and strategically and also in space-race. Investing on space programme will lead to technological and scientific breakthroughs in fields like electronics, computers, engineering, materials science and others.
In 1964, India had to speed up its nuclear research after the Chinese nuclear test. Now India will have to do something drastic to remain on par with China in space matter.
India should not allow China to outpace in both technology and space matters. It is very essential for India to acquire greater space exploration capabilities. India should succeed in putting an astronaut on moon before China does it and thus assert its stature among the nations in the East.
China launched an unmanned space laboratory. That's an impressive feat. That's also a thing of concern for India which is China's closest competitor. China hopes to have a fully functional space station by the end of the decade. If China achieves this feat then it will share the space with the US and Russia. The question is will India too join these three nations in the space race? Will China be at the forefront of space exploration in the future? These things are left to be seen.
Not that India is lagging behind in the matter of space programme. In fact, The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has succeeded in launching several satellites in space successfully. But if ISRO doesn't come up very soon with a space programme that will bring India on par with China, India might find itself far behind China in the near future.
India will need to invest heavily in space programme. India must focus on strengthening its economy to be able to invest in space missions.
China is seeing dreams of putting its man on the moon. India should not allow the widening of technological gap between it and China. Would it be wise on the part of Indian government to ignore those people who question the logic of beefing up the space programme by diverting funds away from social projects? But India government realizes that India should compulsorily be able to match China technologically and strategically and also in space-race. Investing on space programme will lead to technological and scientific breakthroughs in fields like electronics, computers, engineering, materials science and others.
In 1964, India had to speed up its nuclear research after the Chinese nuclear test. Now India will have to do something drastic to remain on par with China in space matter.
India should not allow China to outpace in both technology and space matters. It is very essential for India to acquire greater space exploration capabilities. India should succeed in putting an astronaut on moon before China does it and thus assert its stature among the nations in the East.
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