UK made 'fundamental space mistake'

[Rick]

The UK's decision to shun human spaceflight was a mistake that needs to be changed, says Europe's International Space Station programme chief.

But with Nasa on the verge of ending its shuttle programme and the Russian Soyuz capsules overbooked, it will not be easy to reverse course, warns Alan Thirkettle, a Brit who left the country to head European Space Agency (Esa) projects.

"I think it's a fundamental mistake," Thirkettle said in an interview with the BBC News website. "They've totally blown it."

More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7072021.stm

[Ian]

no s**t, Sherlock 

maybe there'll be fundamental about-face and they'll stop spending money knocking parts of the middle east from the bronze age to stone age and actually give the human race something to strive for.

Of course, we could always talk to Top Gear. All they needed to do was to strap the Hamster into the Reliant Robin. Robert's your proverbial...