Skylark: Britain’s Pioneering Space Rocket
I hadn’t know
anything about this and was fascinated by this display. The rocket was designed
for scientific experiments and began flying in 1957. It operated out of the
Millard Space Science Laboratory and its work included taking ultraviolet images
of the cosmos.
I was surprised
at how small it was and that each one only flew for 10 minutes and yet there
were nearly 450 flights in all.
I loved a video
of people who worked on the project sharing their memories of it. My father
worked at a scientific establishment in the 1950s and they reminded me of him
and his friends and the stories they told. It also pointed out that, as it only
stopped flying in 2005, many of the current astro-scientists started their
careers using it as part of their phds.
Closing date unknown.
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