Two Scottish sites are fighting hard to be the UK’s first designated spaceport but is the idea pie in the sky or will there actually be lift-off? Prestwick Airport in South Ayrshire and Machrihanish, near Campbeltown on the Kintyre peninsula, have recently stepped up their attempts to move into the space age. They have been liaising with the UK government and the UK Space Agency over the possibility of licences being issued to break out of commercial airspace into orbit.
Category: Strathclyde County, Scotland
Campaign to build Argyll space port launched
A CAMPAIGN for the former Nato air base at Machrihanish in Argyll and Bute to be turned into a spaceport has reached Westminster. Argyll and Bute MP Brendan O’Hara spoke at a reception for the bid, which has been launched by the airport’s owners, Machrihanish Airbase Community Company .
Messing about on the riverside: an enjoyable luxury lodge break in Stratheck Holiday Park, Argyll
TO lifeforms of microscopic scale, water has the consistency and texture of sand – with countless billions of miniscule creatures burrowing though every single drop with no obvious purpose or plot. Pondering such matters with two friends as we fizzed away in a hot tub on the banks of Loch Eck, we concluded it was a blessing these wee beasties lacked the optic nerves to perceive three flabby Bermuda-shorted gods wreaking havoc upon their ecosystem.
Glasgow English teacher takes technology trail to business success
As people start thinking about making career moves in 2017 we hear from a teacher who discovered she had unrecognised entrepreneurial talents. We developed the first fully digital SQA course for non-native speakers of English that can be accessed on smartphones, tablets and laptops.