'Galactic Britain': how Cornwall is winning the European space race

Following the publication of the National Space Strategy last week, photojournalist Jonny Weeks explores how the south-west is primed for Britain's first sovereign rocket launch"When we first started, people would laugh at us," says Melissa Thorpe as she guides a group of visitors around an exhibition in a vast hangar at Newquay airport. "But now look, we're only a matter of months from launch."Sweeping around a tall black curtain, she reveals a 21-metre space rocket glimmering under red spot lights. Children's eyes widen and the adults in the group are agog.A model of the 747 aeroplane, nicknamed Cosmic Girl, which will carry the Launcher One rocket beneath one of its wings. Continue reading...