*Okay, this is very "proof of concept" ie design fiction, but the idea of a British space shuttle would have made Sir Arthur Clarke happy.
*Maybe they'll finish it in time to rescue the rackety, space-worn International Space Station. I always thought that the ISS would make an ideal European "museum economy" project – a useless but glorious space-castle inhabited by tourist aristocrats.
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/25/uk-space-agency-gives-greenlight-to-skylon
