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Dire need for Chandrayaan - 2 in a developing country like India: An Opinion

CV Raman, APJ Abdul Kalam, Homi Bhaba, Ramanujan, Satyendra Nath Bose… and the list goes on. Do I need to introduce them? - I suppose not.

So, what was the need that arose alongside them which made all of them work so hard and eventually succeed in their respective time periods? If you consider the time during which they were alive, most of the people in the country were trying to survive and not thrive.

Those were some of the people who rose from the ground, yet never left their roots and worked towards the upliftment of the lives of people in general and India in particular.
Yeah, India was looted by several organisations and invaders for several thousand years before finally being left devastated under the British Rule. After many a thousands sacrifices, we were finally able to free ourselves out from their clutches.

Afterwards, India was left with very little natural resources and the economy went on to become an agrarian one. Industrialization has been too slow. Adding to the plight, constant rise in poverty has been a major issue. While many sectors like Industrialization, Agriculture, Infrastructure, Education etc. are not yet developed upto the mark, it has given rise to questions related to developmental work in Space research.



Chandrayaan - 2, after massive success of its first version has yet much to unveil about the prevailing conditions on the surface of Moon. China, Russia and US are the only countries achieving this feat.

So, what is the use for some developing country like India that could have invested the huge amount in social welfare schemes, but has instead decided to pour on something like the second Lunar Mission? Now guess what? Here’s an interesting twist - not a single rover that human sent has ever been landed on the Southern Pole of the Moon.

As per the explanations, Southern Pole of the moon is devoid of much of the heat radiated from the Sun consequently making it cooler. So, if we succeed in landing on the desired location, we might be onto something very interesting. Probability of finding the traces of water on that particular place is fairly large compared to the places where other countries have landed their respective rovers.


But what will happen even if we succeed in doing so as India could have always used that money in welfare schemes?

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
This is what Neil Armstrong said on being the first ever Human to walk on Moon. Series of events followed this achievement. US has been considered as one of the biggest space power since then. Perhaps, NASA started receiving assignments from other countries to help them release their satellites on orbits. This would have consequently caused a huge bump in their profit curves.

India can also achieve the same fate as ISRO has already created record by placing 104 satellites in their respective orbits at once in the recent past. This has resulted huge inflow of funds for sure. As far as the monetary aspect of Chandrayaan - 2 is concerned, ISRO will soon recover the amount once it succeeds and will start paying back to the society in upcoming years and considering the success rates of ISRO in space research projects, it is very much likely that India will achieve the feat very soon.

As of date, ISRO has successfully launched the rocket on 22nd July, 2019, and the rover is supposedly to land on 7th of September, 2019, on the Southern Pole. Fingers are crossed as ISRO nears in achieving a new milestone in Space Research. This will surely be a giant leap for mankind and hopefully the first foot involved in it will be Indian.

**Answer adopted from this Quora Answer.

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