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The British Space Disaster: Why This Project Burned Millions

On a remote launchpad in the Australian outback in October nineteen-seventy-one, Great Britain did something no other nation has done before or since: we launched a satellite into orbit using an entirely British rocket, and then promptly cancelled the entire programme. This is the bittersweet story of Black Arrow and the Blue Streak, the ambitious projects that were meant to secure Britain’s future in the Space Race. While the United States and the Soviet Union spent billions, British engineers achieved the impossible on a shoestring budget, creating world-beating technology in the sheds and hangars of the Isle of Wight and Cumbria. But behind the scenes, a different battle was being fought in the corridors of Whitehall. In this video, we examine the political short-sightedness, the crushing budget cuts, and the "Treasury-led" decisions that saw our rocket programme dismantled just as it reached perfection. It is the definitive account of how Britain reached for the stars, only to be pulled back to earth by the stroke of a bureaucrat’s pen.