Thrissur: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam
today said ISRO should take steps to bring down the cost of
the payload of a space craft from USD 2,000 per kg now.
"One of the main challenges before the space agency was
to bring down considerably the cost of the payload from its
existing price," Kalam said in his inaugural address at a
reception accorded to ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan at his
native place at nearby Irinjalakuda.
Addressing the gathering, Radhakrishnan said discovery
of water molecule in the moon was major achievement of the
organisation. ISRO's achievements have given the organisation
a prominent place in the space map of the world, he said.
Research will have to go a long way in finding answers to
several intricacies of space. India would be one of the fully
developed countries in the world by 2020, he added.
The main objective of ISRO's research was to help common
man find solutions to problems being confronted by him in his
daily life, he said.
-PTI
First Published: Friday, January 29, 2010, 22:30