Timothy Peake, a 37-year-old test pilot in the British Army Air Corps, has been accepted into the European Space Agency's (Esa) Astronaut Corps. Successive British governments have considered human spaceflight an expensive distraction, preferring to fund robotic exploration instead. This policy has made it extremely difficult for British-born individuals to get into orbit. We examine the importance of Britiain getting it´s very first astronaut.
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