UK and US agree plan for joint space missions

The UK and the US have signed a memorandum of understanding that paves the way for closer collaboration on missions to explore our solar system, including robotic exploration of the moon and trials of technology that could one day be sent to Mars. The deal was reached in Washington last Friday, after a series of meetings …

[regadpellagru]

Is it a scoop ?

<sarcasm from a closeby country>

Well, giving the now closer and closer space

exploration and defense matters as seen from the

bushists, and since UK has been an affiliate state

of the US for now more than 2 decades on defense

matters (mostly due to spy satellites agreements),

how surprising is this ?

</sarcasm from a closeby country>