UK Civil Space Strategy Consultation, UK citizens - chime in.... Options

[djellison]

http://www.dti.gov.uk/consultations/page36442.html

Get the 40 page PDF - read it carefully - and then submit your response to the address included, once I've had the chance I'll post my response in here.

Doug

[nprev]

Doug, I'm a US citizen and obviously therefore not a direct stakeholder in UK policies, but I would like to offer a suggestion in good faith that might form a response to question 18, should UK citizens choose to consider it.

There was no direct reference to any activities beyond Earth observation that I could find anywhere in the document, despite recent reports that the UK is considering an independent lunar mission. My suggestion is that this statement should incorporate at least some goal(s) for UK-only Solar System exploration and space-based astronomy. These need not cite direct efforts, but at least lay the philosophical groundwork for future endeavours.

I hope that I'm not out of line with this post due to my citizenship and certainly do not mean to be presumptive. This is merely a suggestion from a Yank who thinks that British flags on the Moon & later Mars would be extremely cool...cheers!