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Wednesday 29 July 2020

Giant leap - but not quite





Surely spaceflight requires something more technical than a giant leap. Otherwise we'd have done it ages ago. Maybe it's an example of the British ingenuity we've seen so much of lately... 

Oh hang on it's just boring old rockets -

The first ever launch into space from British soil is one step closer today (29 July 2020) as Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announces a public consultation on the regulations for the UK’s spaceflight programme.

4 comments:

Sam Vega said...

Do they realise that there is a difference between launching a consultation and launching a rocket? They can do them both from Boris's pad, I guess.

A K Haart said...

Sam - crikey maybe they don't understand the difference. Somebody should tell them before Boris has his pad incinerated.

Doonhamer said...

After a few aperatifs they thaught they were going to a lunch.
This they undetstand.
They are all for visiting lunch sites all over UK. For the more far flung places they would even bring their PAs, the better to appreciate the better class of hotels and encourage post covid IXX recovery.
And I am not a robot. Hoorah.

A K Haart said...

Doonhamer - sounds extremely plausible to me - a lunch with firework display.