Comments on: Great Britain’s first official astronaut has been picked for a five month mission on ISS in 2015. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/great-britains-first-official-astronaut-has-been-picked-for-a-five-month-mission-on-iss-in-2015/ Mon, 20 May 2013 22:49:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wodun https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/great-britains-first-official-astronaut-has-been-picked-for-a-five-month-mission-on-iss-in-2015/#comment-96172 Mon, 20 May 2013 22:49:31 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=23225#comment-96172 Good for them, it is far past due for them to send someone to the ISS. Perhaps they will be one of Bigelow’s customers.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/great-britains-first-official-astronaut-has-been-picked-for-a-five-month-mission-on-iss-in-2015/#comment-96021 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:24:05 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=23225#comment-96021 “Britain meanwhile had banned spending any government money on space exploration in the 1960s, and hadn’t changed that policy until about two years ago.”

I’ve often wondered why Britain, so instrumental in the Industrial Revolution, was so absent from space. Now Britain has the worst of all worlds: a meddlesome nanny state that has produced an enfeebled and dependent populace who are having their culture taken from them before their eyes. Britain is a socialist cautionary tale, and the fact that Progressives on this side of the Atlantic see it as a role model proves beyond doubt their mental illness.

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