Space, Developments That wiLL aFFect OuR FutUrE and ReseArcH PaperS

As the world always undergo developments and it never stops, new field have been discovered. Human nowadays have the ability to explore and travel to space. The latest mission this month have proved that human never stop exploring. We, as Malaysian should be proud of our country as this mission involved our own people, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha. The mission involved an American, a Russian and a Malaysian. The Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft is used for the mission. The aim of this mission is to do a research on organism in space. The team will be back to earth on 21th October. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will be at Moscow on Oct 21 to welcome back to earth Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Sheikh Mustapha, the first Malaysian to go into space.

Another research have been done few years back by scientists. It have been found that human may have the chance to live at Mars. According to their research, Mars have the similarities with Earth and human might be able to live there as they said that Earth is dying. However we haven't know whether this is true or not yet. Research is still being done to proof whether it is true or not.

Beside space, biotechnology also have been going through some development. Indeed, the modern world went through the “physics revolution” that saw the birth of nuclear power and the “chemical revolution” that lead to the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. And now it is the biology revolution. Biotechnology now plays a central role in developing medicine and other therapies, understanding diseases, forensics, improving animal and plant production, increasing industry effectiveness, environmental monitoring and developing alternatives to fossil fuels. Some aspects of biotechnology are very contentious. Genetically modified food, use of animals in research, stem cell development and cloning hog the headlines. These technologies may be unsafe with risks to us or the environment. There are sometimes serious conflicts with society’s beliefs.Still, biotech is the current buzz and the definite wave of the future. It is seen as the technology to “heal, feed and fuel” the world. There is a huge “biotech war” shaping up globally with much money being poured into this arena. Malaysia has also plunged into the global marketplace with the launch of the National Biotech Policy on April 28, 2005. The Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation is the facilitator for our biotech ecosystem. They will also look into creating commercial opportunities; providing funding and industry development services; and advancing research and development and commerce in agriculture biotechnology, healthcare biotechnology and industrial biotechnology. The National Biotechnology Policy is to be implemented in three phases that would eventually see Malaysia as a global biotech player with 20 global icons by 2020.

Malaysia have lunched MEASAT-3 a year ago. Launched on Dec 12, 2006, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, the MEASAT-3 satellite had undergone extensive in-orbit tests conducted by 15 Boeing space engineers stationed on-site at the MEASAT Teleport and Broadcast Centre. MEASAT chief operating officer Paul I. Brown-Kenyon said the successful deployment of MEASAT-3 at the 91.5 degree east orbital location boosted the company's satellite capacity by over 300 percent while extending the network to 110 countries, representing 70 percent of the world's population.Through MEASAT-3, RTM channels would be able to broadcast to 110 countries across Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa from 25 countries currently.