"Chandra" "yaan" the first, lifted off a few days back carrying the hopes of a billion people to the moon..... do people really care? Yup, defying all odds, they really do!! And are hoping against hope that it doesn't end up being Chandra-yawn!!!
But that is not the reason I am writing this blog. I just had a simple query.... while watching the news-clip showing the jubilation in the control-room of Chandrayaan-I right after lift-off, was I the only one who noticed that ALL the people in the room looked like the Druid Getafix (or Dumbledore for the new-gen)??? Do they really think the Indian space "set-up" can become a full-blown space "industry" if they are planning to keep the young scientists out of the loop? Or have they found the "spring of life"?
Please don't get me wrong. These "druids" have done great magic for India and I, like millions of others, respect them greatly for that. But many observations liken them to NASA..... the combination of the great minds of the old NASA as well as the rigidness of the new NASA. The whole point about ISRO is that it is different from NASA and not JUST in being much more economical. We are not and SHOULD NOT try to be the China of the space industry (moreso since even China is doing really well in that respect)!!
I really hope this mission goes well and that at the same time the younger generation of scientists get to play a role in it.......
