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[djellison]

Thought I'd kick off a thread just for this.

Todays program is here
http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/679/266/1/1/
Ed and Fergus from CU Spaceflight are on at 1440

Tomorrow
http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/679/266/1/2/
I'm on at 1120

Live streaming is available - http://batc.tv/ch_live.php (and is up now)

Enjoy.

[djellison]

That's the problem - everyone in ESA member states paid for MEX and Rosetta....but because we didn't all pay for HRSC, or, say, OSIRIS....those specific instruments think they can get away with near zero outreach. It's near criminal.

As a result - as I presented in that talk - some researches asked school kids aged 12-15 here in the uk
"Can you name any organisation from anywhere in the world that carries out space research?"

the top answers were NASA, followed massively behind by 'don't know' and 'Russian'.

And I quote

“ESA had one more response
than Area 51 and just two more
responses than ‘Men in
Black’....the British National
Space Centre (BNSC) was not
mentioned once!”

This was the summer after Mars Express and Huygens did their thing. It's not like ESA wasn't up to anything.

It gives me rage.