world together but sometimes is also transcending the frontiers of our planet i'm now joined by alice byrne she is the international director of the u.k. space agency thank you very much for joining us here on the w. and i'm going to start with a question you have answered many many times but of course we also want to know what is going to happen after breakfast considering that your work can almost impossibly be done without the international cooperation yeah absolutely nasa space is a truly international endeavor it will always remain the case so we work internationally already primarily through the european space agency to support a lot of r. and d. in collaboration with the rest of europe but we also cooperate internationally on the safety of the operating environment and that's something that's increasingly important so i feel very confident that we will continue strong international partnerships in the u.k. space sector and how would it work with the european space agency change so we will remain a very strong participant to the european space agency we are looking forward to the mini