She outlined a few areas the government had identified as essential, including mining, oil exploration and tourism development.
Space exploration and tourism company Excalibur Almaz (EA) planned to use them for space holidays costing £100m after importing them in 2011.
Since the end of the Falklands War in 1982, the islands' economic activity has increasingly focused on oil field exploration and tourism.
Ms. Shirley said she hoped future government efforts would concentrate on providing incentives for private space exploration, even space tourism, noting that the early aviation industry of private barnstormers expanded into a viable business only because the government gave it contracts to deliver mail.
One avenue for exploration is high value tourism.
By the beginning of the 21st century, the population was about five times greater because of colonization, oil exploration, commercial logging, and tourism.
These vivid places are compacted into the television, facilitating a kind of tourism and exploration that is both convenient and peril-free.
Of this, $2.6 billion came from tourism, mineral exploration, energy development and construction.
"The SpaceX vision was to start by trying to build a basic, functionally cheap rocket," says Thiel. "Once you shift the economics from $20,000 for a pound of payload to $1,000 for a pound of payload there are all kinds of things you can do"–giving a kick, perhaps, to space tourism, Mars exploration, maybe even lunar colonization.
Economic diversification has also occurred with oil and gas exploration, forestry, and recreational tourism.
