A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Starlinks Internet satellites being launched at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 6. Prof Mazlan says various fields, from agriculture, maritime, defence to the environment, benefit from space applications. Photo: Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today/AP
“One of the questions the moderator asked me was, ‘Why should we let the billionaire boys control what we do in space exploration?’ “If we colonise Mars, we must have a strict code of conduct. Can we own Mars, can we own the moon, can we own asteroids? Only governments can decide. The Professor Emerita at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and senior fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia is an accomplished scientist with a string of local and international accolades to her name.
In 1994, she was appointed by UKM as a professor of astrophysics and, five years later, appointed director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs based in Vienna, Austria. In June 2009, she was appointed deputy director-general of the UN Office at Vienna, retiring in Dec 2013. “And in terms of climate change, space has transformed the environmental movement and will continue to transform our knowledge.
“All that is done through space technology,” explained Prof Mazlan, adding that effective solutions require data from the ground, air as well as from space.
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