Almost all top media houses across the world covered the giant leap of India’s space programme of launching a second Moon mission, the Chandrayaan 2, on Monday. And almost every media house headlined the news on how ISRO managed the launch.
Even Ravish Kumar covered it in his daily prime time. But Ravish had a big concern as he explained the space programme. He termed the project as a waste of money as even if Chandrayaan finds water on the surface of the moon, it would be too costly to bring the water to Earth.
Ravish Kumar also said that first there should be infrastructure developed to bring water back to earth and then and only then such space programmes should be implemented.
He took the example of how Ashutosh Gowarikar used science and technology to deliver water to a village in his movie Swades. Ravish thinks that first the pipelines should be laid and then there should be a green signal to such projects which costs billions of dollars of money.
Ravish also said that what ISRO has done is a proud moment for us but India always had the technology to send things to space and he gave the example of the Diwali rocket. Ravish asked the scientists to justify the expenditure on Chandrayaan2 and also asked the government to investigate the cost involved.
