Brexit Britain’s space firms to play ‘key role’ in NASA’s Moon mission: ‘UK’s prestige!’

While the UK wasn’t a major player in Monday’s launch specifically, it is making vital contributions to the Lunar Gateway, an orbiting space station currently being developed as part of the Artemis programme.

Another British firm, Thales Alenia Space UK will provide the refuelling module on the Gateway, which will support future lunar missions.

When asked whether the UK’s space firms will work closer with NASA and other space agencies in the future, he told Express.co.uk: “They do now actually, we’ve got quite a lot of UK’s small SMEs that work with NASA and do supply chain work for them.”

As the UK’s Space Champion, Mr Morris assists British space firms in growing and contributing more to the economy.

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