However, the Senate and the White House doesn't seem to be supportive of the plan, citing that it's unnecessary to change the force's
existing space efforts.
Huygens would be Europe's most
daring space effort, aiming to land on a distant surface we'd never even seen.
No news yet on the body's name or spending power, but it has long been argued that a single body managing the
U.K. space effort would bring more coherence to research efforts and give the United Kingdom more clout in negotiations with international partners.
Although most scientists applaud the government's endorsement of the mission, some worry that the country isn't doing enough to ensure an adequate supply of astronomers, astrophysicists, and other scientists to take full advantage of such an
ambitious space effort.
There is no American
manned space effort anymore — the Space Shuttle program, inaugurated the year DISCOVER premiered, is about to wind down.
But this unassuming subcompact promises to dramatically slash the cost of putting satellites into orbit and maybe even resurrect America's
moribund space effort.
Try getting an astronaut to LEO first, then, maybe, you'll be consider for the
deep space efforts.
Defense Space Activities: National Security Space Strategy Needed to Guide Future
DOD Space Efforts GAO -08-431R March 27, 2008 (15 pages)
Humanity will be benefited by medical discoveries made in
the space effort, we are told.
Boeing has announced the creation of BDS Development, an organization within its Defense, Space & Security (BDS) unit, which will centralize its defense and
space efforts.
The second got us a big scientific dead end, and probably set back
our space efforts by getting us to the moon 30 years or so before we were really ready to do something about it or follow up the efforts.