Not just space: How ISRO is touching many facets of our everyday life
At a press conference soon after the Mars orbiter launch in 2013, a foreign journalist asked the same question: why should India send a mission to Mars when millions are in poverty? Then Isro Chairman K Radhakrishnan told him about the benefits of the space programme, but the journalist persisted with his argument. Many might raise the same question about Chandrayaan-3, India's third lunar spacecraft, which is scheduled to land on the Moon today.
Though space research has some very obvious benefits such as telecommunication, weather forecasting, GPS, and detecting water bodies and minerals, going to Mars or landing on the Moon is seen by many as a vanity project.
Few people know that even the most obscure research by ISRO can finally land in your home, workplace or a factory in the shape of an immensely useful product or process. For example, a robotic technology developed by ISRO to operate equipment in a spacecraft might ultimately be used to make smart artificial limbs.
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