The UK can use its overseas territories to get ahead in the space race, according to experts, as it prepares to launch spacecraft from home soil for the first time. Some of the British overseas territories are “positioned in incredibly strategic spots,” Robert Clark, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society think tank, told The Epoch Times on Tuesday. “For example, Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territory, the Ascension islands, and the Falklands. These are … perfectly suitable for things like space-based programs, and satellites, and radar facilities,” he said. Experts have called for the UK to develop its own space capabilities as space becomes more contested both commercially and militarily. In the biggest military spending boost since 1991, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced in November last year that the UK will establish its first Space Command and launch satellites and its first rocket from Scotland in 2022. However, …