UK Space Agency launched

[TimberWolf]

It was Grocer Ted's administration that put the kibosh on the Black Arrow programme.

It had been cancelled before the launch of Prospero, and the only reason it was launched was that it was sitting on the launch pad ready to go.

Hang on a second, who was Education and Science minister when Ted Heath was Prime Minster? Someone called Margate Thatcher I believe

Could it really be that Maggie killed off the UK Space Programme and doomed us to be a nation of has-beens, dunces and Luddites? Surely shome mishstake. Who knows their history, who gives a toss, who's the real political culprit here (out of Labour and Conservative).

[threaded]

The Americans only broke the sound barrier after the UK gov. told the British company who were about to do it to stop and send everything they had to the yanks.

[TimberWolf]

It sounds as if Britain didn't see the commercial value in space, so helped out the yanks etc do their bit for mankind, as an altruistic act.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_space_programme

[TimberWolf]

Timberwolf's first budget. Scrap all spending. Put it instead into researching and very quickly developing:

• Fast Breeder nuclear reactor technology
• The first UK Moon base

[threaded]

Ah yes.

The fully moving tail.

And the rest...