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Tony Blair talks Titan with Professor John
Zarnecki
Prime Minister Tony Blair paid a surprise visit to the Open
University, Milton Keynes, yesterday morning (16
February 2005) - and declared the university's space science
department "fantastic".
Mr Blair took part in a live Five TV discussion in the Berrill
Building before visiting the Planetary and Space Sciences Research
Institute to meet scientists who helped put Cassini Huygen's probe
on Saturn's moon Titan.
"Exciting, this!" he told Professor John Zarnecki. "It's a great
piece of work. I missed out on science at school and have learned a
lot here today." Mr Blair, who also met Vice-Chancellor Brenda Gourley and PVC
Alan Bassindale, was then presented with a framed image of the
moon's surface taken by the probe.
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