I know what happened hear, we were winning the race with just a shed to work in and USA didn't like it, we were broke and getting money from USA so they said stop your space programme and we'll keep funding your bankrupt nation. Just like they enterded both wars late so that our empire would crumble, so they could become world powers. i know its cynical but do u trust them after fake moon landing???
All this technology developed by England, then mysteriously dropped at a crucial stage. Only to reappear a couple of years later.
Rosetta2004 you know this video is about the cancellation of the British satellite prog. Why twist it to make it sound like they are wingeing?
People like you make me sick. What is the point of your posting? A space programme? I don't call begging 3rd world countries for a ride for a homemade satellite a space prog. The left have no vision. We must shake them off
@obakegadeso Not about left or right in fact the APT tilting train was developed by BREL (nationalised) on a shoe string and when the money ran out (BR never got government money, even Leyland only got bailed out and bit of cash to finish off the Austin Meastro) was sold to the Italians (nationalised). The Pendolino uses British-developed technology and the Italians get the profit. We're only 6th GDP because we work such long hours. Jo Public is to blame too, not supporting/buying British.
Scuzzi5tube,I blame it on Carl Marx & his interpretation by smelly trade unionists and self hating rabid socialists.They take great delight in rubbishing anything of worth born in England & in giving as much as possible to the rest of the world as reparations for the slave trade.
Rosetta2004 sorry, we don't have a brill space prog. We went from being one of 3 countries that cld launch a satellite in 1971 to watching on in awe as a 3rd world country we gave billions to in aid launch a moon probe
@obakegadeso 'We went from being one of 3 countries that cld launch a satellite in 1971' - britain was the sixth country to launch a satellite, after USSR US France China and Japan.
What is it with the UK, we just throw it all away or just give it to other people to capatalise on it. Look at what the French have done with the space program, The Fairly delta 2 - the French with the Mirarge. The TSR 2, Concorde ... it goes on and on.
Actually, the UK has a brilliant space programme - it just goes unreported. Try searching under BNSC on YouTube or on the web and for companies such as Astrium and SSTL
All the money our UK MP's have scammed off us over the years...we could have had a full-blown space program!
The money should be found, and black arrow should be rebuilt for a test unit under the supervision of these old blokes, then a modern version developed from it.
Joes trilogy of videos "Once We Had a Rocket" is a truly important historical document on the Black Arrow Rocket project of the late 60's/early 70's. It deserves our attention.
Strange speech impediment the narrator has.
05Rudey 5 months ago
I know what happened hear, we were winning the race with just a shed to work in and USA didn't like it, we were broke and getting money from USA so they said stop your space programme and we'll keep funding your bankrupt nation. Just like they enterded both wars late so that our empire would crumble, so they could become world powers. i know its cynical but do u trust them after fake moon landing???
waspnag 1 year ago
Great post thanks. Fascinating time but in the typical 70's fashion was a case of what could've been??!!
TitchTV 1 year ago
Instructions for a British rocket launch: -
1. Place launch vehicle in milk bottle.
2. Light blue touch paper.
3. Stand well back.
Next launch due 5th November.
mpearson58 1 year ago
All this technology developed by England, then mysteriously dropped at a crucial stage. Only to reappear a couple of years later.
Rosetta2004 you know this video is about the cancellation of the British satellite prog. Why twist it to make it sound like they are wingeing?
People like you make me sick. What is the point of your posting? A space programme? I don't call begging 3rd world countries for a ride for a homemade satellite a space prog. The left have no vision. We must shake them off
obakegadeso 2 years ago
The leaning train developed in Britain.. isn't the Gondola that runs from St Pancras to Paris a similar idea?
Concorde could have been taken much further, the expertise and technology was there. Scaled composites stole a march I think.
The whole country run down, sold off, all for the sake of left wing rubbish.
We owe the world NOTHING
obakegadeso 2 years ago
@obakegadeso Not about left or right in fact the APT tilting train was developed by BREL (nationalised) on a shoe string and when the money ran out (BR never got government money, even Leyland only got bailed out and bit of cash to finish off the Austin Meastro) was sold to the Italians (nationalised). The Pendolino uses British-developed technology and the Italians get the profit. We're only 6th GDP because we work such long hours. Jo Public is to blame too, not supporting/buying British.
quarkwrok 6 months ago
@obakegadeso I thought it was Thatcher that disassembled Britain's manufacturing capability
999knives 5 months ago
@obakegadeso Also this programme got the sign-off in 1964, under Harold Wilson's government
999knives 5 months ago
Scuzzi5tube,I blame it on Carl Marx & his interpretation by smelly trade unionists and self hating rabid socialists.They take great delight in rubbishing anything of worth born in England & in giving as much as possible to the rest of the world as reparations for the slave trade.
Rosetta2004 sorry, we don't have a brill space prog. We went from being one of 3 countries that cld launch a satellite in 1971 to watching on in awe as a 3rd world country we gave billions to in aid launch a moon probe
obakegadeso 2 years ago
@obakegadeso 'We went from being one of 3 countries that cld launch a satellite in 1971' - britain was the sixth country to launch a satellite, after USSR US France China and Japan.
maureenOWW 1 year ago
What is it with the UK, we just throw it all away or just give it to other people to capatalise on it. Look at what the French have done with the space program, The Fairly delta 2 - the French with the Mirarge. The TSR 2, Concorde ... it goes on and on.
scuzzi5tube 2 years ago
Actually, the UK has a brilliant space programme - it just goes unreported. Try searching under BNSC on YouTube or on the web and for companies such as Astrium and SSTL
Rosetta2004 2 years ago 2
All the money our UK MP's have scammed off us over the years...we could have had a full-blown space program!
The money should be found, and black arrow should be rebuilt for a test unit under the supervision of these old blokes, then a modern version developed from it.
adelestevens 2 years ago
VIEW THE VIDEO CLIP..
Uk vote for space
lets begin..
arien60 2 years ago
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EluraUser 3 years ago
Interesting stuff this. Cheers.
peepiepo 3 years ago
Joes trilogy of videos "Once We Had a Rocket" is a truly important historical document on the Black Arrow Rocket project of the late 60's/early 70's. It deserves our attention.
billsutils 3 years ago