Although India entered “Space Race” much later than America, Russia and even China, India’s space industry is booming, considering that India did not receive any technological help from any country. In a way that proved to be an advantage, as India’s Space success is all home-grown, modern and most efficient.
No wonder Western nations, including America, turns to India to put their communication satellites in orbit, as India can launch as many as twenty satellites on one rocket. Not only it is the cheapest but Western nations trust India more than China or Russia.
With stunning victory of BJP, under sterling leadership of most loyal and nationalist, corruption-free leader Modiji, India is readying to soar into deep space, targeting not only the Moon, but Mars and Venus as well, two nearest planets to Earth with a programme of seven launches in the next ten years.
China is eying Moon as its colony to dominate space exploration, unlike America who landed astronauts on the Moon fifty years back, then abandoned the programme.
In sharp contrast, China aims to establish Moon colony with permanent settlement, as water has been found on the Moon by Indian spaceship that landed on the Moon near North Pole, turning Moon into a military base to dominate the world, following China’s success to turn entire South China Sea (SCS) as its own backwater, building artificial islands in shallow international waters, threatening free passage to Japan for whom it is a lifeline, as some 90% of Japan’s export passes through SCS.
The gullible West still unable to realize the threat China possess to the world, instead concentrating on Russia, as if it is still Soviet Union!
If America had continued its Moon success, then by now America could have built a huge self-sustaining, permanent settlement on the Moon, colonize the Moon for the good of humanity at large and used it as a launching pad for the exploration and exploitation of Mars and Venus.
India is the only nation that can thwart China’s evil intention of first economically colonizing the world and then expanding its borders, threatening bordering nations like India, Bhutan, Vietnam, Japan and few more.
It is high time West wake-up and support India, its space programme, as a counter-weight to Chinese domination that could change the world map for ever!
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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