the tmp commission back in 2015 here in the uk -- tim commission back in 2015 here in the uk —— tim pique hugely influential. and all that is key to exciting and engaging our younger generations. we live in a technological tell macro technology— based world, and we need people to get excited by these. in space has a huge benefit on shining the benefits of technology around. we saw the mission control group applauding as the second astronaut, i think it was doug hurley, was successfully removed from the capsule and a stretcher. jonathan, one question to you, what happens next? i know spacex will have to proceed with similar missions to the international space station, won't they? what happens next in this whole plan? well, nasa has engaged them under a service contract to ta ke them under a service contract to take its astronauts up to and back from the international space station. it has also engaged the boeing corporation to do exactly the same. we will see those flights become routine, the whole point of this mission was that it was an end—to—end demonstration of that service, and nasa

tim pique left school at 16, joined the military, the man flying in march is a civil aviation pilot —ll the european space agency astronauts, the european space agency will have another astronaut this year, so there is another opportunity for some people a go. but the young people listening, as well as one day perhaps being an astronaut, there are many, many jobs perhaps being an astronaut, there are many, manyjobs that support these astronauts. they are just the tip of the iceberg. thousands of jobs here in the uk, tens of thousands ofjobs, jobs here in the uk, tens of thousands of jobs, many jobs here in the uk, tens of thousands ofjobs, many similar numbers around the world. so there are lots of ways to be a part of this. even with the advent of this terrorism for which there are tickets available now, i say to young people and i really say to young people and i really say to young people and i really say to young people that if they start saving now, they may one day be able to buy a ticket to go into space which is the era of commercialisation that we are seeing here with spacex.

as we see businesses here in the uk take advantage of —— tim pique.at underpins our everyday lives, and there's a lot of technology that uses there's a lot of technology that uses things like global navigation systems, telecommunications, the weather, earth observation looking at data that tells us all about the things that are going on down here on earth — all of that has become commercial and, to do things in space, to develop new materials or new pharmaceuticals, these kinds of things — this is what the commercial chapter will enable uk companies to do. could be conceivably see at some point vehicles of this kind, perhaps this one or the boeing one, or others launching from uk soil? we are looking at things launching from the uk, the uk government is enabling the legislation for spaceports to happen. the focus at them and it is very much on small satellites, and i don't think we will see launchers that are big enough to take humans into space — all the way into space on uk soil. but we may one day see in the near future suborbital launches from the