Comments on: Britons on UK and US space policy http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/03/02/britons-on-uk-and-us-space-policy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=britons-on-uk-and-us-space-policy Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Kevin Parkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/03/02/britons-on-uk-and-us-space-policy/#comment-175 Thu, 04 Mar 2004 09:57:46 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=89#comment-175 It’s encouraging news that the UK sentiment toward space is changing.

UK space policy and the prevailing attitude behind it has always seemed to me a perfect example of how scientists behave when they’re willfully and rigorously shortsighted. There was no place for people like me (people interested in new launch concepts and other enabling technological advances) – that’s why I left the UK. Perhaps these new figures might jolt BNSC (British National Space Center) into some useful reform.

Better still, perhaps it will jolt the UK government into replacing BNSC with something more like a real space agency. Or perhaps Mary Poppins was right: “You can have anything you want if you hold your breath…” – I’m not holding mine.

]]> By: Dwayne A. Day http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/03/02/britons-on-uk-and-us-space-policy/#comment-174 Wed, 03 Mar 2004 16:14:52 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=89#comment-174 Actually, the British public is correct in thinking that the US is more interested in the miltiary potential of space than the exploration of Mars, human or otherwise. All you have to do is add up the numbers. I don’t have handy access to numbers on how much money is being spent on military space, but it is at least equal to the entire NASA budget.

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