This second edition provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Streak and its conversion to a satellite launcher as part of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO).
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Places | |
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| Political and Administrative Matters | |
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| Politics | |
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| Rocket Motors | |
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| Rocket Motors in the UK | |
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| HTP | |
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| Hydrogen | |
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| Solid Fuel Motors | |
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| Rocket Interceptors | |
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| Designs in Detail | |
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| Facts and Figures | |
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| Blue Steel | |
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| Blue Streak - The Origins | |
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| The Warhead | |
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| A Solid Fuel Design? | |
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| The Missile Design | |
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| Blue Streak - The 'Underground Launcher' | |
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| Blue Streak - The Cancellation | |
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| BND(SG) | |
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| Origins of Skybolt | |
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| Unpopularity of Blue Streak | |
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| BSSLV | |
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| A Liquid Hydrogen Stage | |
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| Blue Streak with a Centaur Upper Stage | |
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| The European Launcher Development Organisation - ELDO | |
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| The Political Failure of ELDO | |
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| Europa | |
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| The Launches | |
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| Improving Europa | |
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| Europa III | |
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| Black Knight | |
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| Black Knight and the Re-entry Experiments | |
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| Black Knight Launches | |
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| Project Dazzle | |
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| Summary of Black Knight Launches | |
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| Crusade and the 54-inch Black Knight | |
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| How Successful was Black Knight? | |
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| Was Black Knight Good Value for Money? | |
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| Black Arrow | |
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| The Flights | |
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| The Cancellation | |
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| Black Arrow Improvements | |
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| The 'Might Have Beens' | |
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| A Black Knight IRBM | |
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| Could Britain Have Launched an Astronaut into Orbit? | |
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| Alternative Histories | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Could the UK Once Again Become Involved in a Launcher Programme? | |
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| Original Documents | |
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| History of the Saunders Roe SR53 and SR177 | |
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| K11 Underground Launcher | |
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| Use of Spadeadam for Space Firings | |
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| Space and the Future of The European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) | |
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| A Black Knight Launcher? | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Archives | |
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| Index | |
