Not another Malaysian in space,please!

Well, we have sent a man into space, or have we?

Did we send him by our own technology and scientific research? or did we just pay for the fare of his tour in space?

Would our country benefit more by investing the huge amount of money ( spent in getting a man up in space) in our research and sciences, in our schools or health clinics ?

What have we really achieved apart from making news headlines for maybe a couple of days in local media, and an entry in overseas media?

These are questions we have to ask ourselves rationally . These are public funds which belong to the people.

 The late Tun Razak declined to have a swimming pool built in his compound while he was the Prime MInister when he learnt that the pool would cost about RM60,000 which in those days could have been enough to build 2 rural clinics. He eventually asked the relevant authority to use the money to build the health clinics.

We could learn a lot from this story about Tun Razak.

What has been done cannot be undone. So after asking ourselves the above questions , and taking the example of Tun Razak into consideration, I would urge the authority to think very carefully about their declared intention of sending another Malaysian into space, again hitching an expensive ride in another Russian spacecraft.