{"id":4758,"date":"2019-10-29T20:39:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2019-10-29T20:39:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:09:42","slug":"upsc-2019-g-s-paper-iii-solution-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/upsc-2019-g-s-paper-iii-solution-4\/","title":{"rendered":"UPSC: 2019: G.S paper III Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is India\u2019s plan to have its own space station and how will it benefit our space programme?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>MODEL ANSWERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ISRO is planning to have a separate space station. It will not be a part of International Space Station. Space station is going to be very small. ISRO will be launching a small module and that will be used for carrying out microgravity experiments,&#8221;.<br \/>\nA space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting crew members, designed to remain in space for an extended period of time and for other spacecraft to dock.<br \/>\nCurrently, there is only one fully functional space station in the Earth&#8217;s lower orbit, the International Space Station and astronauts conduct different experiments in it.<\/p>\n<p>The International Space Station is a partnership between European countries represented by European Space Agency, the United States (NASA), Japan (JAXA), Canada (CSA) and Russia (Roscosmos). It is the world&#8217;s largest international cooperative programme in science and technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BENEFITS OF SPACE STATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commercializing low-Earth orbit.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting worldwide water purification efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Developing eye surgery with\u00a0<strong>space station<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Preventing bone loss and fighting osteoporosis.<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring natural disasters from<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improving indoor air quality.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Better research opportunity in field of medical sciences as certain bacteria react differently in spaceflight.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Improving eye surgery with space hardware.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is India\u2019s plan to have its own space station and how will it benefit our space programme? MODEL ANSWERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4759,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions\/4759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}