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BERNAMA:

Second Space Mission Should Be Postponed - Sheikh Muszaphar

PENDANG, April 19 (Bernama) — National astronaut Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Sheikh Mustapha has proposed that the government postpone Malaysia’s second space mission.

He said the postponement was to allow the community to be fully exposed to the programme before the second mission could take-off.

“We need to learn a lot of things about aerospace and the community must have a good understanding of the programme.

“(Moreover) the space mission uses a large amount of public funds,” he told reporters after launching Mara Junior Science College’s astronaut programme and the astronomy and amateur radio club here Saturday.

Muszaphar said people at the grassroots-level should have a clear understanding of education, technology and skills in aerospace before the mission could be continued.

About 2,000 students, including those from Mara junior colleges at Kubang Pasu and Beseri in Perlis, attended the launch of the programme.

– BERNAMA

Dr Sheik Muszaphar Sheikh Mustapha had urged government to postpone second space mission as he want government to brainwash the community that how hard the space travelling is. He said that people in grassroots-level, like us, should know how complicated the education, technology and skills involved in space travelling. He didn’t mention anything about “benefit of space travelling”. Second, he knew that a lot of public funds had been used for the first one. Those money are used for the space travelling education, technology and skills, and again there is no benefits mentioned. As I knew, when he got chosen as space traveller, he didn’t have any knowledge in science.