Abstract

The Royal Greenwich Observatory in Cambridge and the Royal Observatory Edinburgh could be privatized by April 1997 under plans announced by the UK government. Management of the other Royal Observatory sites on La Palma in the Canary Islands and Hawaii could also be contracted out to local organizations. “I am surprised to hear that you can go to the market place for skills that took 300 years to put together,” says Jasper Wall, director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

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