Wouldn’t it be great for humanity if space was more accessible? A little time thinking about the possibilities should excite all but the least imaginative. Imagine the implications of being able to mine asteroids or deploy vast solar arrays in space, for example.
So with NASA’s US$17bn budget you’d think there would be some room to do some basic work in this area. And I’m sure there is.
Doesn’t it make you proud, though, that some seriously promising work is being done in Oxfordshire and that so far it has consumed just US$7m?
Read more on Scientific American magazine’s blog.
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