Chandrayan is finally over!

So it has been officially put under suspension, and it is a matter of time before ISRO abandon their famous chandrayan wasting significant amount of public money in this poor country.

What would have happened if ISRO had not attempted this ? Nothing! This was nothing innovative or not something no country has ever done or would have made the lives of the millions of poor in this country. This was just a me-too attempt from a Government space research organization to make the Indians proud at a significant cost.

One cannot really blame the people behind these efforts - they are trying to do their job and make some impact at least in the papers! The root cause of the problem is indeed the existence of an organization called ISRO - as long as it exists, they will keep wasting tax payers money with such projects. They have not become a world class space research organization by any standards, they remain a me-too organization funded by the Government. So the solution really is to close ISRO - but that is not any "patriotic" politician would dare to to do in this country.

One can understand the impact of closing some defence research organization - our perpetual enemy would attack us and we will not be able to defend our country(which is again questionable), there is indeed a perception of risk if we ignore the defense organizations of the country, but nobody will miss ISRO for sure!

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