Since the home country of Borat can afford a space port and launch satellites and astronauts in orbit how come the mighty powerful British empire cannot????
2007-02-21 02:21:37 · 7 answers · asked by Sporadic 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The space port is left over from the Soviet era. In fact, I believe Russia still owns it, manages it, and launches the satellites.
2007-02-21 02:30:28 · answer #1 · answered by codenamex_47 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I recall, Kazakhstan got it's space port back when the Soviet empire was paying for it. It took so much money, the whole USSR was poor.
The British decided that they could just rent launch rockets from the Americas, Russians, and the Europeans. Lets somebody else pay for the space port.
2007-02-21 10:30:55 · answer #2 · answered by morningfoxnorth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The space port at Kazakhstan was paid for and is operated and paid for by Russia and not by the people of the country that it's in. Since the actor who played Borat is from Britain, perhaps you can get him to help build one. I'm not sure where Britain has oceanfront property near the equator though. Most of Australia is pretty populated unless they went to something like Norfolk Is or such.
2007-02-21 10:50:52 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Baikonur(Spelling? ) cosmodrome isn't owned by Kazakhstan.It was originally built by the soviet Union as the base of operations for its ambitious space program from the late 1950s to the 1980s.After the break up of USSR, It was leased by the Kazakh government to russia and managed by the Russian federal space agency.
As for why the British don't have a space port,i guess because its much cheaper to rent.
2007-02-21 10:35:19 · answer #4 · answered by Tharu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The spaceport was built by the Russians in the 1950's during the begining of the space race. After the Soviet Union fell, Russia still controlls it but I believe they rent the space from the current government.
The Britts just use existing spaceports for their space craft. It saves lots of money doing it that way.
2007-02-21 10:54:45 · answer #5 · answered by chefantwon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the mighty powerful British Empire ended around the time that liquid-fueled rockets were invented.
2007-02-21 10:42:50 · answer #6 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have often wondered why the US is the only Western country interested in space exploration. I'd like to see the UK create RASM= the Royal Aeronautics and Space Ministry.
2007-02-21 10:30:38 · answer #7 · answered by Year of the Monkey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋