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emailed me informing that they will be responding in due course to my open letters. I am informed that the part of my emails DSIT will be responding to is the following: "<b>I request the UK Government, UKRI and UK universities to work together on a UK Space
Science Education Plan to rapidly expand Space Science research and education in the UK.
</b>I request UK universities to provide full scholarships for UK students from economically poor families and first generation students (first in family to go to University) studying Earth Observation, geospatial science, data science, geography, environmental
science, climate science and space science courses in all UK universities. <b>This is key to build Space Sector Skills for delivering a skilled, diverse, and sustainable space sector workforce.</b>"</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I have been working and championing over a decade for providing more full scholarships in UK universities
for UK students from economically poor families and first-generation students (first in family to go to university) in the UK. I thank UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology for looking into this important topic . I am looking forward
to receiving UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) response to my open letter . The UK has huge ambitions in science and technology. UK will need to collaborate more deeply with other leading nations to tackle the urgent
global challenges facing our planet through science and technology.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I request all UK Political parties, MPs, Universities, parents and teachers to kindly support my open
letter. <b>Let us work together to help achieve UK’s aim of becoming a science and technology superpower by 2030 by</b>
<b>providing full scholarships for UK students from economically poor families and first generation students (first in family to go to University)</b> studying Earth Observation, geospatial science, data science, geography, environmental science, climate science
and space science courses in all UK universities. <b>This is key to build Space Sector Skills for delivering a skilled, diverse, and sustainable space sector workforce.</b></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Access to quality education opportunities is key for getting rid of poverty and enabling broadly shared
prosperity for all.</b></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:</b> Suchith Anand <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 25 January 2024 13:41</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Subject:</b> Open Letter requesting the UK Government, UKRI and UK universities to work together on a UK Space Science Education Plan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Dear colleagues,</span></div>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Congratulations to Japan on becoming the fifth country to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon. Japan’s
successful Moon landing was the most precise ever. Details at </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(220, 161, 13);"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00151-3" id="OWA50a7cc11-496d-cf7a-1d72-eb4afdd981cd" class="x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(220, 161, 13); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00151-3</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are partnering
for the Lunar Polar Exploration Mission (LUPEX), which aims to explore the lunar polar region for potential sustainable activities and water-ice resources. The mission will involve a rover developed by JAXA and a lander developed by ISRO, along with instruments
from NASA and ESA. The LUPEX mission is scheduled for launch in 2025 and will include instruments proposed by India's Physical Research Laboratory to measure the lunar surface and subsurface. </span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(220, 161, 13);"><a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/isros-next-moon-mission-in-collaboration-with-japanese-space-agency-gathers-steam/articleshow/102943227.cms" id="OWA1c9a7ed5-7994-feae-d859-46f9a7aaf467" class="x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/isros-next-moon-mission-in-collaboration-with-japanese-space-agency-gathers-steam/articleshow/102943227.cms</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(220, 161, 13);"><a href="https://www.space.com/japan-india-2025-moon-mission-lunar-south-pole" id="OWA8a26d927-eb47-73d0-e607-7e21951139ab" class="x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.space.com/japan-india-2025-moon-mission-lunar-south-pole</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>I request the UK Government, UKRI and UK universities to work together on a UK Space Science Education
Plan to rapidly expand Space Science research and education in the UK. </b>I request UK universities to provide full scholarships for UK students from economically poor families and first generation students (first in family to go to University) studying Earth
Observation, geospatial science, data science, geography, environmental science, climate science and space science courses in all UK universities.
<b>This is key to build Space Sector Skills for delivering a skilled, diverse, and sustainable space sector workforce. </b></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>This article in the Guardian on “Disadvantaged parents in England and Wales rule out Stem jobs for
children, charity says” might be of interest</b></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Disadvantaged parents rule out careers in science, technology, engineering and maths for their children
because they think those jobs are “already stitched up”, according to a leading education charity. More than half of parents (51%) from a lower socioeconomic background, who took part in a survey by Teach First, said they believed their children were unlikely
to go on to a career in Stem.</span></p>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/23/disadvantaged-parents-england-wales-rule-out-stem-jobs-for-children-charity-says#:~:text=Disadvantaged%20parents%20rule%20out%20careers,to%20a%20leading%20education%20charity." id="OWA4ba5b6df-41d4-d462-59b0-bc96feb47aa2" class="x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/jan/23/disadvantaged-parents-england-wales-rule-out-stem-jobs-for-children-charity-says</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>My Open Letter
</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>requesting the UK Government, UKRI and UK universities to work together on a UK Space Science Education Plan is
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https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=OPENEDSIG;70379317.2401</a></span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:</b> Suchith Anand<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 17 January 2024 12:02</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Subject:</b> Water on the Moon: international prize launches for purifying lunar water</span></div>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">An Indian space mission Chandrayaan-1 in 2009 found evidence of water on the moon concentrated at the
poles , raising hopes that a manned base could be established there within the next two decades.</span></p>
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/24/water-moon-space-exploration-india" id="OWAa76de5b6-d42c-9405-c509-e6cb2d3c6f4f" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/24/water-moon-space-exploration-india</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed near the lunar South Pole in
2023 and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">India became the first country to land near the lunar south pole. This is paving the way for future crewed missions and even bases on the Moon's
surface.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">From humble beginnings in sheds (the equipments were carried in a bicycle and a bullock cart!) to becoming
the first country to land near the South Pole on the Moon, to missions to Mars , India's space journey is an epic tale of ingenuity and resourcefulness. Story of India’s amazing space journey at
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(220, 161, 13);"><u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL94XhNbwQ4" id="OWAda164fa7-2767-8913-5859-478420867d7c" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(220, 161, 13); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL94XhNbwQ4</a></u></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">India’s space mission will inspire millions of students from all over the world (including students from
economically poor backgrounds in the Global South) to STEM education and space science education. </span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">India’s idea of ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’ is resonating across the world. This human-centric
approach has been welcomed by all. India’s space mission is also based on this principle. India’s success belongs to all of humanity.</span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It is good to see many countries now working on space missions to Moon.</span></p>
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</b><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/water-on-the-moon-international-prize-launches-for-purifying-lunar-water" id="OWAbc2d508a-5d59-72cd-a938-9e2aeb1d5899" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/water-on-the-moon-international-prize-launches-for-purifying-lunar-water</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>I request the UK Government, UKRI and UK universities to work together on a UK Space Science Education
Plan to rapidly expand Space Science research and education in the UK. </b>I request UK universities to provide full scholarships for UK students from economically poor families and first generation students (first in family to go to University) studying Earth
Observation, geospatial science, data science, geography, environmental science, climate science and space science courses in all UK universities. This is key to build Space Sector Skills for delivering a skilled, diverse, and sustainable space sector workforce. </span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dr Suchith Anand</span></p>
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