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This Is Why

Can the UK still be a space superpower?

This Is Why

Sky News

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It was supposed to be Britain's first small step towards space exploration but no amount of awe and excitement on the ground at Spaceport Cornwall could will the LauncherOne rocket into completing its mission. Yet with spaceports springing up around the British Isles, and billions of pounds expected to flow into the economy as a result, could the UK be on the brink of becoming a space superpower?
On the Sky News Daily, host Niall Paterson is joined by Sky's science and medical correspondent Thomas Moore who was at the launch in Cornwall, plus Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees on the UK's growing role in space exploration and Professor Monica Grady on why going to space really is worth it.

Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer: Tamara Bungaroo-Valdez
Podcast promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Philly Beaumont

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:21.4

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0:26.8

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0:30.1

You turned your dating app for pets into a business, which just turned over its first billion.

0:36.1

You turned around the fortunes of a failing football club,

0:40.8

politely turned down a Nobel Peace Prize,

0:43.7

and turned up on Mars in your own reusable rocket.

0:48.8

While struggling to turn on the dishwasher,

0:52.1

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0:54.0

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0:57.1

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1:00.3

I can still remember the day the letter arrived from space.

1:04.8

A thick brown A4 envelope with the return address, NASA, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1:12.2

As something of a bold 10-year-old,

1:14.4

I'd written to them asking what I needed to do to become an astronaut

1:17.5

and whether or not there were any vacancies.

1:20.4

And as you might already have guessed, they were not.

1:23.2

And although I never quite made it to the stars, I've never stopped dreaming.

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