Challenge YOUR Space Program?

Posted by: nanoeric

My dear Datuk Sri Najib, can you lay out the concrete plan on Space Program? We as the investors (tax payers) would like to know your concrete plan and implementation if Government would like to proceed to it.
First of all, it is an investment with minimal profit. No other nation in the world will do it, except Malaysia. Malaysia Boleh!

What can our honourable astronault do after his space program? Going around being government ambassador to gain votes, promoting country to foreigners? (Foreigners are laughing at us; we can’t even build a good car, not to mention the hull of airplane) If you want to challenge it, prove it with the abolishment of AP system. See how proton can survive then.

Will he continue the research he had done previously? It seems to me that there are others who are analyzing the results, not him. What can he do next? Going to Mars? What can u do after going to Mars? Do not mention about promoting Malaysia. I was being humiliated by foreign friends now. My Muslim friends even keep no respect to criticize it. (First muslim in outerspace while we are using other ppl’s technology to achieve it?) It’s a shame.

Thirdly, are we expecting to use foreigners’ shuttle forever? How many times you can send them over? Doing research again? Zero-gravity research? Do not bluff those people who are working in scientific field. If we really need zero-gravity research, we can just build the zero-gravity facility in Malaysia and use it as many times as you can. Going to space only allow u to do it once, which is not economically right. The concern is, I doubt do we have the good engineers to maintain the facilities and good physicists to conduct the research. The fact is, we can’t even build a good car, which requires the least quality requirement as compared to space shuttle and high-tech facility.

Buying a used spaceshuttle? Do we have engineers to do the maintenance and stringent check? What’s the progress of training aerospace engineers in Malaysia? I do know most of them end up in sales and other field. What’s the progress of our R&D? Our implementation plan?

I suggest to we should learn how to build an airplane, before going into space industry. Furthermore, we need supporting industries to support the main spine of space industry. Can they all meet the safety requirement? Look at our parliament building. Our ex-architect minister can’t even assure no “bocor” within one year of renovation.

Look at our bio-valley proposal. What’s the progress? How much benefit we have enjoyed so far? There is so much for us to do.

We have been good in coming out with Fool ideas, what we need is to show people we Malaysians are able to execute the idea and implement well. I do support building up our space industry, by helping third world nations to design their satellites, while gaining enough capital for future space development. Concrete plan, Concrete implementation please?

I hope the government learns something from election. We need someone who is good in reasoning and wisdom to run the country.

PS: I was thinking not to write, but i can't resist my irritation over the space program. I do hope Malaysians grow wiser and wiser, more practical and pragmatic in approaches.