According to this article, the British Government is reconsidering its decision on sending manned missions into space. The major problem, as far as the British Government is concerned is that the recently established Science and Technology Facilities Council, STFC--apparently is massively over budget. This has caused a major backlash within the scientific community. The scientific community is taking issue with the UK's contradictary stance concerning Space exploration, noting that they have high expectations and hope to make major advances with their exploration, but are not allocating enough funding to help themselves move forward. The fear is that if they continue to stress their budgetary issues, they would miss many great oppurtunities and lose the ability to move forward in the way they so much desire to do.
Read it here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/02/14/scispace214.xml
-Ryan
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