WASA Mug Kerfuffle
Fighting erupted outside WASA HQ yesterday as the all new WASA mugs went on sale for the first time. Old ladies with large handbags were seen to be laying into one another in a desperate scramble to get their hands on these limited edition heirlooms. WASA officials had to limit purchasers to just 20 mugs each.

"We should have seen it coming" said WASA mug procurement offical Eifion Evans,"especially when you consider we reduced the price for the launch from £307.99 to just £7.99".

Get yours from the all new WASA Tea Shoppe.

Morris Spoon delighted he got his mug yesterday.

Cymru III Phlogiston Levels Critical
Despite repeated requests for them not to breathe quite so much, Dilwyn and Megan are in extreme danger of running out of de-phlogisticated air. If they were to run out, the likely outcome is that their heads would go red and then pop. This is clearly detrimental to the mission.

Therefore, we are trying to raise funds to send them a tanker full. WASA is funded directly out of our own pockets, and frankly, we have better things to spend the money on. So this is where you come in dear space cadet. By buying absolutely everyone you know, family, friends, funeral directors, a WASA mug this Christmas/Valentines Day/Easter/Shrove Tuesday you will be doing your bit towards bringing Dilwyn back home again - otherwise his head might look like this:

Wrexham vs Bury
Sat 15th March 2008
Come on folks, lets raise enough cash to bring Dilwyn home in time to be guest of honour at the above match. You see, The Welsh Space Agency will be official match sponsors at the League 2 football game between Wrexham and Bury on Sat March 15th 2008, kick off 3pm. And Dilwyn, will be leading out the players - not to be missed.

Likely a dreadful game of football and a nil-nil draw, but the pies are okay, and it shouldn't be too cold by then.

The Peth, Missing in Action
We would like to apologise to fellow anoraks of the Welsh Space Agency. For we seem to have been in some alternative dimension whereby we were contacted by a Super Furry Whatnot's side band called the Peth who were going to write a song about us. Well, either it was all a dream, or the multiverse theories are correct. For there is now no trace of them whatsoever. They've gone. And we made up the bit about Elton John, sorry.

All is not lost however, because film composer Tom Evans has written us a wonderful (but short) piece of music called "Dilwyn's Theme". And yes, this will be on the website very soon. But dear newsletter subscriber, you can hear it for yourself here.

More WASA merchandise on the way...
As space organisations go, The Welsh Space Agency is pretty skint. In fact, church mice tend look down their noses at us. But when finances permit we'll be digging deep to bring you even more things for your children to throw in the skip when you're dead. Mousemats, Tee-shirts, toilet-roll holders. The world is our lobster.

And the WASA Mousemats (may look like this)

Cymru III - The Movie
Amazingly, Dilwyn has found the record button on the video camera we sent with him. Not only that but he's managed to transmit some amazing footage back to us here at WASA HQ. Just as soon as we've uploaded it onto our Betamax player, we'll start editing it for delectation of you dear interweb surfer..

We hope to have the videos ready some time in the new year. They'll depict life on board Cymru III, the loneliness of deep space travel and how Dilwyn copes with boredom and interstellar cookery.

Coming to an internet thingy near you soon..

Engineering Notes
Following on from our artists impression of what Cymru IV will look like, many people have asked us to clarify the propulsion system involved. So to that end please see the schemata at right which we feel is quite self-explanatory.

Propulsion Matrix
Pictured left is one of the propulsion matrices ready for fitting to the business end of Cymru IV. Dilwyn is seen alongside to give you an idea of the size of these units.

They have been likened to party poppers. And we have to admit that, superficially at least, they do look a bit like party poppers. We mustn't forget though that this is highly skilled engineering - rocket science in fact. Each unit is ignited by pulling on the big string.

Finally...
A big thank you to Space Cadet # 165 Cole Henley from Falkirk-nil who designed, then twizzled around a bit the rather snazzy logo which will soon become familiar across the entire globe**
And to Tom Evans composer (Cadet # 223). Ace!
And what sort of stupid name is "The Peth" anyway?

Yours, in Space

Llyr Ap Llwyllion
Director of Space Newslettering

** or not