It's exciting that Australia is getting a space agency. But what will it do? | Andrew P Street

It's unlikely the new Australian Space Agency will be sending astronauts to the Moon any time soon - but there's a lot of space work to be done besides that

On Monday Australia woke to learn that it would be getting its own national space agency. Delivering the keynote speech at the International Astronomical Congress in Adelaide, Michaelia Cash said the agency is already at work on a charter, the details of which will be released in March 2018.

And we should be excited, because Australia already does amazing space science.