Looking Into the Blue Abyss

Staedter looks into the Blue Abbys build by a technology consultant John Vickers. Blue Abbys will open in 2019 in Bedfordshire, England, on the grounds of Royal Air Force Henlow station, which last year was listed for closure in 2020. Most of the base of the Blue Abbys will be transformed into housing, but the Bedfordshire city council wants part of it earmarked for a science and technology park and hopes it will fill that space. A computer-generated image of the Blue Abyss pool features a heavy-lifting crane at the top, an Astrolab in the lower left, and a 50-meter (164-foot) dive opportunity at its deepest point. Vickers sees Blue Abyss as an essential component of the goal of the UKSpace, a trade association representing most of the country's space industry, after announcing its intention to capture 10 percent of the global space market by 2030.