Said the news anchor, something like, “Boeing is working on building rockets and shuttles to compete with Space X.”It made me laugh to think that of all that huge money being spent twice within the United States. All this only makes me laugh because our preoccupation on self means our motives for space travel are too focused on individual wants. From the 1970s, scientists in India have been researching the many practical aspects of space travel. They allowed for a progression of other organizations, each researching as contributions, not only to the development of space travel but also to the technology launched into space such as telescopes. In 1967, the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) was established in Germany from where it has operated 50 satellites in 40 years.