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UK Space Agency Launched
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."
Regardless it is a joke and they picked an appropriate day to start it.
Black Arrow rebooted? They fired the engines several times, and then they fired the engineers. :-(
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Surely they should have called it the Ministry of Space?
The logo will be a ladder extending above the top of a roof top...
A true Englishman would describe the catastrophic failure of an oxygen tank as "a spot of bother".
Now now, just because it has a consultant who goes by the name of "the Doctor", and the first interplanetary cruiser to be named "HMS Camden Locks" doesn't mean it has to be all fanciful..
It's soooooo nice to see a fresh new article that hasn't yet been visited by the [citation needed] fairies.
Although the "outer space is up" claim probably will require a cite.
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