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Professor Sir Martin Rees
The USA and China can now down satellites with missiles. Professor Sir Martin Rees is Britain's Astronomer Royal. Is space science being misused?
Almost forty years after Neil Armstrong's moonwalk inspired a generation, what has happened to space science? Epic manned space flight to distant worlds is still not real life. The Americans and Chinese are locked in a different race - to launch missiles capable of downing satellites far from earth. Professor Sir Martin Rees is Britain's Astronomer Royal. Is space science being misused?
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Fri 14 Mar 200823:30GMT
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