Central American nation Costa Rica creates a Space Agency; Possibilities to work with ISRO
By Dr. Adolfo Chaves-Jiménez
On Thursday, February 18
th, 2021, the Costa Rican congress approved the law to create AEC. All that is left is the signature of the president of that country for this project to be law. With this tool, the tiny nation of a little more than five million people intends to be a protagonist of the space age.
As in any developing nation, when investment is done in advanced science and technology areas, this approval does not lack controversy. In the public, expending public resources in space technology is influenced by the perception of space dominance for geopolitical reasons, the struggle to get to space or to the Moon of the last century as a competence for supremacy, dominance, and yes... of vanity.