President of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Dr. S. Somnath said – Our goal is to send an Indian to the moon by 2040. For this we need to build a space station, because there must be an intermediate to send humans to the moon.
For this, microgravity research and many special space mission goals have to be fulfilled.
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The ISRO chief said- We have also outlined the programs for the future during the next 5 to 60 years. The government has also announced a budget of 30 thousand crore rupees for this.
The present time is a major historical moment in the history of the space program.
S Somnath told the students – The entire space mechanism is changing. Changes in space science have to be understood.
Accessing space and learning about its laws is not as difficult as it used to be. When the Americans started thinking about a lunar mission, they had to invest heavily in the space program.
They had to invest about 20-30 percent of their national wealth, so that they could develop science capacity as it is today. Now access to space has become very easy.
Nowadays anyone can launch a satellite. This can also be done in universities and institutes and the cost of launching satellites has come down so much that today there are about 20 thousand satellites in space.
More than 50 thousand satellites are providing minimum-latency telecommunication services and Internet services, which is a very staggering figure indeed