Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Jamaluddin Jarjis is very excited of having our first man in space… so excited that he already have plans to send our back-up candidate, Faiz Khaleed, to become the next Malaysian in space. [AFP]
“Captain doctor Faiz Khaleed will be the primary angkasawan and the next mission, probably in 2008 or 2009, should have him doing more challenging tasks,”
“This could involve him doing a space walk or conducting repairs to the spacecraft.”
Jarjis is acting like a 5-year-old kid with a new toy… Najib surprisingly shows more sense indicating that a review of Muszaphar’s mission would take place before any decision on future space exploration.
One angkasawan is more than enough. If Malaysia want to send someone to space again… build a rocket and send it ourselves… I might feel really proud then.
Who will build the rocket? Don’t tell me we import the rocket from Russia and claim it’s made in M’sia by Malaysians? Hahaha…
Interesting point… the funny thing is that our government might actually do so. Still, sending the rocket itself requires high technology, I doubt we will be seeing it in the next 2 decades.
will our rockets suffer from inherant malaysian defects like power window failure? missing engines? I wonder……………..