From an astronauts perspective, absolutely not. They are all trained to do theirjobs correctly and properly, and are all very, very capable of doing that. There is no difference in their abilities. I think what you see sadly is still this difference in the media interest in it. You go back to the early days when sally ride flew into space, along with the first woman to do a spacewalk all the women astronauts, all the questions they got asked had nothing to do with being able to do theirjob. The questions being asked to man where, hows your hair going to be . Hows your makeup . All sorts of weird questions. And that is an indication not of the jobs they are doing, but the media. Its great that there is this interest in today and it is certainly a milestone, one im really happy to see reached. But i look forward to when this isnt something that we comment on, and men and women are able to go about their business without comment on their gender. Life to the International Space station the
In a week as police crack down on drug gangs operating across the uk. And two nasa astronauts make history with the first ever all female spacewalk. And at 11 30 well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, broadcasterjohn stapleton and associate director of the institute of economic affairs, kate andrews. Stay with us for that. Good evening. Borisjohnsons brexit deal is on a knife edge tonight, with the numbers too close to call ahead of tomorrows crucial vote in the commons. He needs 320 votes to get it passed, but has only 287 conservative mps. It means he must persuade some labour rebels, ex tories, and sceptics in his own party to support him. The brexit deal would see the uk pay around £33 billion in a so called divorce bill when leaving. Eu and uk citizens would retain their residency and Social Security rights, and thered be a transition period until at least the end of 2020, during which the uk would abide by the eus laws. The whole of the uk would leave
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Events will take place around the world today to mark the 50th anniversary of when man first set foot on the moon. The mayor of new york declares a local emergency as two thirds of the United States prepares for a dangerous heatwave. Good morning. Our weather is set to get hotter next week in fact, very hot for some of us. But were not there yet. Still a bit of rain to come this weekend. Ive got yourfull forecast coming up. Heartbreak for rory mcilroy as he misses the cut by one shot at his home open championship at royal portrush in northern ireland. Its saturday the 20th ofjuly. Our top story uk ships have been warned by the government to stay away from the coast of iran, after the countrys armed forces seized a british tanker yesterday. Late last night, the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, said therell be serious consequences if the vessel and its 23 crew arent quickly released, but added that military options are not being considered. It comes after weeks of escalating tensions in t
Some of the political motivation for it sadly came from a negative although it was turned into a positive and there has been a lot of co operation between nations since then. Is there a role for britain in that . The absolutely is. We are not very good here in the uk at singing oui very good here in the uk at singing our own praises when it comes to the activities that we do within space. We are World Leaders in satellite technology, we contribute to the human space flight programme. Obviously, tim peake was our first European Space agency astronaut. We have a huge amount of research and by our involvement with the European Space agency, we have got a huge number of space scientists and space engineers working on these big european and multinational projects, so european and multinational projects, so there is a very, very alive and kicking space industry in the uk at the moment. So we should be celebrating and commemorating this as much about whats to come as what been . For me, it is