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UK Space Agency Launched

Posted by timothy on from the launched-get-it-launched dept.

krou writes "Today saw the launch of the new UK Space Agency (UKSA), which will officially come into being on the 1st of April. Its stated goal is to lead to more coherency in space policy, and better decision making, by gradually assuming control over the various budgets and management functions of various government departments and science funding councils. Lord Drayson, the minister for science and innovation, said that 'People in the UK are not aware of just how good Britain is both at space research and in terms of our space industry; [a space agency] is going to make people more aware of that. But in practical terms, it's going to make the decision-making by government in all aspects of space policy much more joined up, better co-ordinated — a single point within government which has responsibility for making sure that we get everything in alignment such that the space research we do, the space industry that we're building, fulfils its true potential.' The government also announced that it is adding £24m to the £16m put up by business to create an International Space Innovation Centre at Harwell in Oxfordshire."

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  1. Premature ejokelation by mcnazar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Jumped the gun there fella! April's Fool day is still over a week away.

  2. A space agency for the UK, for crying out loud ?!? by vikingpower · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, right. And Captain Blackadder will be CEO. Of course.

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  3. Re:We're still a big powerful country! by Darkman,+Walkin+Dude · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Reported crime is very different from low level intimidation by welfare bred chav thugs who know exactly how far they can push it before they will get in serious trouble, which is what I was talking about. Anyway the general point wasn't about English people (who I generally like) but about the idiot leadership (who I generally don't) - this is a ridiculous nationalistic move which smacks of jealousy that former vassal state India has a space program and they don't, when the country is running through one of the most serious economic crises of its existence.

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  4. Let me be the first to welcome... by Kymermosst · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let me be the first to welcome the U.K. to the 1950s!

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