UK Reconsiders 1986 Decision To Ban Astronauts

An anonymous reader writes "The British space agency, BNSC, is reconsidering its 1986 decision to reject all human space missions. The decision has dominated British space policy ever since, leaving Britain out of many American and European space projects. The UK is the only nation in the G8 group of leading economies that does not have a human space flight program. But space enthusiast groups like the British Interplanetary Society are trying to persuade the British government to participate in both manned and unmanned space activities."

Comments

Re:The problem is another entirely.

[Pogdranaut]

I think you parsed his argument wrongly, No, his entire argument consisted of the one line which I quoted.

NHS Spending

2002-03: £65.4bn

2003-04: £72.1bn

2004-05: £79.3bn

2005-06: £87.2bn

2006-07: £95.9bn

2007-08: £105.6bn

I'm failing to see the 'halving of cost' which he refers to, which is why I made my follow up comment.