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Black Arrow - The failure of foresight Options
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#1 Posted : 08 January 2017 20:48:28

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The story of Britain's only satellite launcher which continues to orbit the earth and Concorde having won out, which was seen as having more commercial potential than launching Satellites Laugh and the British space programme then relegated to the status of a museum piece.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3388535.stm
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Well I never knew we had a space program!Blink BigGrin
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