Second Angkasawan?
After the first so-called Angkasawan returned safely to earth, we have this in newspaper
Second Angkasawan can go up in 2010-2011
MOSCOW: The Russian Federal Space Agency has made an open offer to Malaysia to send a second Angkasawan to the International Space Station in late 2010 or 2011.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Malaysia had until 2009 to confirm its undertaking of a second space mission. He noted that the decision to send another Malaysian to space depended on the benefits such an endeavour would provide and the costs involved, as the next one would have to be funded by the Government.
Should we consider seriously what he had mentioned in the newspaper?
Second bid ‘may eat into funds’
JOHOR BARU: The plan to send a second Angkasawan to space should be carefully considered as it may eat into development funds.
Public Accounts Committee chairman Datuk Shahrir Samad said that while he was “not totally against” the plan, all the pros and cons had to be contemplated.
“Of course this project will help broaden our thinking and encourage the study of science and technology.
“However, as a developing country, we have many competing considerations and developmental projects,” he said, adding that the effect such an expensive project would have on the national expenditure also had to be considered.
He is right. Too much praise is a burden.
We have so many serious and urgent problems need to be solved in our society. What kind of problems are? The latest one is the next round of price raise for the daily goods and you name it. Want more? Take the judicial scandal as example, how many days already gone and what we have heard from the panel? Royal commission?
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