Celebrating the British space industry

[Rick]

When you think of the space industry, you'd be forgiven if your mind leapt straight to countries such as the US, Russia and Japan – the last place you might come up with is Britain.

However, you'd be doing your country a disservice because, actually, the British space industry is really quite amazing.

It's amazing because it employs more than 25,000 people across 260 companies and it generates more than £7billion a year for the country.

It's amazing because during the economic downturn – when most other industries were flapping around on their backs – the British space industry actually grew by eight per cent (and in the past decade it has averaged annual growth of more than ten per cent).

More: http://www.cosmonline.co.uk/blog/2010/12/09/celebrating-british-space-industry