Inside out

Back page gossip from the 24 January issue of Research Europe

Space’s several frontiers A public-opinion survey for the European Space Agency has uncovered some reassuring findings, as well as several that are rather worrying.

A jolly 90 per cent of more than 5,000 respondents in five European countries said that they viewed space activities positively. Happily, this was despite respond- ents overestimating the costs of space activities at