I am over the moon at the news...perhaps it isnt really the Space agency but the new Welsh Valleywood reproduction of the Bond film Moonraker with weatherman walking Derek Brockway as the Second Welsh Bondsman?...Phil

Excellent link, so funny :D

The Times tells us today that scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) is using an MoD firing range at Pendine Sands to simulate a mission to Jupiter's frozen moon, Europa. While tourists frolic in the sunshine, a few miles away, a team of scientists is simulating a penetration mission to Europa. The surface of Europa is represented by a huge ice cube which is proving difficult to keep cold in the current weather. A probe will be fired along 300m of railway into the block. The idea is that within a decade, a real probe can be sent to Europa to do some drilling and beam back information to Earth. The mission will take 8 years to reach Europa so many of us will be gaga or in the Elysian Fields by then.

Of course, what they don't realise is that the Welsh Space Agency have already reached Jupiter and Europa. See www.welshspaceagency.org

updated by @gaynor-madoc-leonard: 11/11/15 10:38:57PM