Submitted on Friday 26th August 2011
Published on Tuesday 30th August 2011
Current status: Closed
Closed: Thursday 30th August 2012
Signatures: 7
Tagged with
Britain ~ British ~ Parliament ~ UK
SUB-ORBITAL SPACE PLANE FOR £50 MILLION
On 21/2/07 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmsctech/66/7022108.htm Dr Patrick Collins testified to Parliament that it would be possible, rebuilding the British Rocket Fighter of the 1950s, the SR53, in modern materials, to build an inexpensive sub-orbital space plane.
"There is simply no difficulty at all. The technology was already there 50 years ago, and materials and so on have advanced a great deal since then."
The MPs were more concerned about discouraging US businessmen (wanring access to zero G experiments) and space tourists from increasing their carbon footprint by flying here.
This will give Britain an enormous first step into space at 1/5th of the annual cost of the NERC quango (one of several existing to "raise awareness" of alleged catastrophic global warming).
Commercial space industry is growing at 5% annually in the UK an 17.6% in the US. The commercial opportunities are literally unlimited.
You can't sign this petition because it is now closed. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
18.217.14.208 Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:02:54 +0000