It's the end of the festive period and I've been hard at work for the past few days beginning my research for my Batchelor's degree dissertation. It broadly involves analysing certain space programmes and applying international relations theory and classical geopolitics to the understandings I have of them. Spending time in the flat before my flatmates arrive has given me ample silence and lack of distractions to get cracking with my work.
I am surprised with myself. I managed to watch an EU/ESA conference on future space exploration plans (not in its entirety however) without suffering spontaneous narcolepsy. The Russian and Indian insights were very interesting indeed. I do hope that the European Space Agency manages to coordinate efforts for further human space flight, namely developing a manned ATV.
Finding one concise document detailing for each of the space programmes I need would be most useful, but it remains illusory.
In other news, is seems that the Russians are keen on doing what Bruce Willis did. Nonsense aside, if the Russians keep taking this seriously I think it can only serve to get other space agencies off their arses and do something ambitious, being it solo or working together with other agencies. If this is what it takes to recapture the population's imagination in regards to space, go for it!
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