Thursday November 16, 2006
Playing games part of space research
TOP-SPINNING and playing batu seremban may be some of the experiments the first Malaysian astronaut will carry out in space.
Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry parliamentary secretary Datuk Rohani Abdul Karim, who was replying on behalf of the Science, Technology and Innovations Ministry, said the astronaut would also do batik painting and make teh tarik.
She said this in reply to comments made by MPs on what the Malaysian astronaut might do at the International Space Station.
Rohani said the training programme for the Malaysian astronaut in Russia would not cost the Treasury a single sen.
Replying to Datuk Dr Marcus Mojigoh (BN – Putatan), she said the programme was provided free of charge as part of an offset programme for the purchase of Sukhoi fighter aircraft from Russia.
She said the benefits of the programme for the country were numerous, including the opportunity to conduct scientific experiments in space.
“Such experiments will also be studied by our own scientists in the medical, science and educational fields.
“Schoolchildren will be further motivated to increase their interest in science and technology when our astronaut holds a live teleconference with students from several selected schools,” she said, adding that the astronaut would also conduct experiments on micro-gravity in front of the television camera.
Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor and Kapten Dr Faiz Khaleed, who have been selected for Malaysia’s first astronaut programme, are undergoing training in Russia before departing for the International Space Station. Only one of them will travel to the ISS on Sept 2 next year.
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