After the first, groundbreaking launch of Columbia, in 1981, space shuttles were responsible for building the International Space Station, a multinational space laboratory due to be completed next year, and for launching the Hubble Telescope.
Such a syllabus harks back to the myth of a "pure" origin for English literature, uncontaminated by the unintended consequences of empire, and ignoring the multicultural, multilingual and multinational space that Britain is today.
In contrast to what is perceived as an oppressive multinational state, it may offer space for identities to flourish.
Budapest, Prague and Warsaw all experienced a boom in the supply of modern office space as multinational companies moved in.
Demand for housing steadily increased, followed by demand for commercial space as multinational corporations began arriving to take advantage of India's emerging outsourcing industry.
John Axelrod, a biotech billionaire who launches the first Mars-bound entry into space, recruits a multinational team of engineers and astronauts by asking, with disarming frankness, "Who still wants to go to Mars -- on the cheap?" Cheap means a small fraction of the $450-billion price tag NASA has put on a manned mission with multiple backup systems.
So, in the 1990s, when multinational companies looked for office space to house thousands of employees in call centres in India, Gurgaon became an obvious choice.
The only thing that was disappointing is the nature of modern media, which is very much to make sensational headlines, to try and draw people to click on things so they can sell advertising space to some multinational company.
Although it is difficult to say how many crew members would be ideal - balancing skills, ability for self-sufficiency and finite resources available, against increased medical risk, I believe it would need a psychologically and physically screened diverse, multinational crew – ideally with past space experience or having spent time at a place like Concordia.
Since then, he's battled it out with multinational toy companies for shelf space in big box stores.
Ariel Louis Jacobs, known to friends as R-E and to family members as Airy, used his charm to climb from Radio Shack clerk to chief of United States operations for a multinational company, Caplin Systems, in the space of a decade.
