A commercial astronaut training site and its massive pool are coming to Britain
If you're an astronaut — or just a lover of outer space — these are nervous times to be in the UK.
The vote for Britain to leave the European Union has potentially scuppered Britain's chances of scoring big European projects such as Galileo — the European sat-nav system — which is largely funded by the EU.
But fear you not because, in the new Queen's Speech, the government has pledged to increase the UK's share of the global space economy from 6.5% today to 10% by 2030.
And now it wants to transform the country into the place to be for private spaceflight. Read more...
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A commercial astronaut training site and its massive pool are coming to Britain
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