USA Reports India’s counts down to Mars
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“India is aiming to follow the Soviet Union, United States and Europe in having a successful visit to Mars.”
“K. Radhakrishnan, Chairman of the Indian Space and Research Organization. and his wife offered prayers Tuesday morning at a 200-year-old shrine to the Hindu god Vishnu, asking for success in the launch”.
Many criticize India’s $1 billion space program that money would be better spent stamping out widespread poverty and hunger . There is strong side of this programme , its importance in providing high-tech jobs for scientists and engineers and practical applications for solving problems on Earth. Space research over decades has allowed India to develop satellite, communications and remote sensing technologies that are helping to solve everyday problems, from forecasting where fish can be caught to predicting cataclysmic storms and floods.Poor and Hungry are benefitting.
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