Blue Streak
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Blue Streak
1973 report
> John Swinfield reports from the abandoned rocket base at Spadeadam, near Carlisle. Spadeadam was previously the testing site of the Blue Streak rocket - originally planned as a replacement for Britain's V bomber nuclear deterrent, and subsequently repurposed as the first stage of the European Launcher Development Organisation's space research vehicle, Europa-1.
> John Swinfield reports from the abandoned rocket base at Spadeadam, near Carlisle. Spadeadam was previously the testing site of the Blue Streak rocket - originally planned as a replacement for Britain's V bomber nuclear deterrent, and subsequently repurposed as the first stage of the European Launcher Development Organisation's space research vehicle, Europa-1.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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Then there were Black Knight and Black Arrow. But enough nostalgia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_(rocket)#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_(rocket)#
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow
