Should ISRO rejig its priorities, experts differ

Chennai:  Contradictory views were voiced out by space experts in India on the country’s space agency’s Mission 2.0 following the failure of the moon landing mission earlier this month.
Should the Indian space agency rearrange its priorities was the question posed.
While one view is that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) should first get its rockets at par with other space agencies to loft its own as well as foreign satellites, and then look at inter-planetary missions, that too on international cooperation basis.
Space experts also stressed that the ISRO should thoroughly check all the systems of its crew module without leaving anything to doubt with regard to its proposed manned mission Gaganyaan.
The manned mission is planned to be realised by 2021.
Conversely, some experts have also said ISRO as a national space agency has to look at scientific missions like interplanetary ones and cannot be restricted to being just a satellite launch organisation.