The Californian SpaceX company says it plans to launch the most powerful rocket since the Apollo era in 2013.
BBC News - SpaceX to launch huge new rocket
BBC News - SpaceX to launch huge new rocket
So a single private US start-up company is to eclipse the UK's entire space programme, historic and likely future, in one mighty bound. Meanwhile we can't even land something called a Beagle made of Lego and string using a borrowed rocket technology which did work. We don't do science innit.
It's good to see the end of the Shuttle though, with more powerful rockets developing, which are almost as powerful as those developed by our ancestors, that might open up space again.
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