credit Reaction Engines / caption: the UK science minister Lord Drayson fully endorsed the Skylon concept
Air breathing rocket engine development company Reaction Engines was visited today by the UK government’s minister of state for science and innovation Lord Paul Drayson of Kensington. He is responsible for the country’s British National Space Centre
Drayson wanted to discuss the status of the Oxfordshire company’s air breathing rocket engine work. Watch the video of Hyperbola’s interview with Lord Drayson in the extended portion of this blog post. Behind Lord Drayson in the video is a technically detailed mockup of Reaction Engine’s Sabre air breathing rocket engine
Hyperbola’s interview with Reaction Engines managing director Alan Bond will be posted on Monday 25 May 2009