Seeking views on the content of the draft national strategy for space environments and human spaceflight.
The UK Space Agency is consulting on the contents of a new National Strategy for Space Environments and Human Spaceflight. ‘Space environments’ refers to all research conducted in space, utilising one or more condition of the space environment – for example, microgravity, radiation, extreme vacuum – or in ground-based facilities which mimic these conditions, such as drop towers simulating microgravity or Antarctic stations providing isolation. ‘Human spaceflight’ here describes all human presence in space.
The draft strategy sets a national vision for work in this area; defines goals which will deliver this vision; sets out different routes to achieving these goals; and highlights key areas of UK research which will support and benefit from this strategy.
The top-level goals are: