§ Mr. Martenasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will announce a clearly defined forward policy for a scientific work on space satellites; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. CroslandThe Science Research Council, for which I have responsibility, organises the scientific Space programme. This programme exists to make it possible for individual scientists, or groups of scientists, in universities and other institutions, to carry out researches in Space. Hitherto the main opportunities have been in the 81W series of Anglo-U.S. satellites. In future the main opportunities will be in E.S.R.O. and N.A.S.A. satellites.