Our charge is that they have persevered far too long, against every sort of advice and evidence, in sticking to a weapon which we now have to abandon, and which therefore is apt to become a total loss and a total waste of our defence effort, unless, for purely fortuitous reasons which have nothing to do with the original decision for Blue Streak, we can find a place for it in space research. The Government reply has not so far been very convincing. Mr. Sandys, the Minister of Aviation, complained that the Labour Government had not done much work on ballistic rockets in its time, but at least the V-bombers, which were set in hand in those days, are still effective as part of our independent British deterrent: and it is, and must be, the Party of the Government in power for the last nine years who must take the responsibility for this.

April 30, 2026 - Partly to avoid political embarrassment from the cancellation, the UK government proposed that the rocket be used as the first stage of a civilian satellite launcher called Black Prince. As the cost was thought to be too great for the UK alone, international collaboration was sought. This led to the formation of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO), with Blue Streak ...

November 18, 2024 - In the 1950s, the British independent nuclear deterrent was provided by the V-bomber force, so called because its aircraft types were the Valiant, Vulcan, and Victor. But, in April 1957, the British government produced a White Paper on future defense policy [1] that essentially stated that ...

(Reel 1) Blue Streak is launched, monitored by radar. The building of the rocket in England is shown: casings are constructed, and the rocket motors are put into place. A crane puts the half finished rocket onto a lorry, where it is driven through Manchester. Cut to the launch site at Woomera, Australia, where lift-off is seen again, then back to Britain, where other component parts of the rocket are driven through the streets (packed in a box marked HAWKER SIDDELEY DYNAMICS SPACE PROJECTS DIVISION - BLUE STREAK - STEVENAGE TO WOOMERA AUSTRALIA) then loaded onto a ship by a floating crane.

They might console themselves afterwards with thoughts of all the money they were saving; the Labor Party would crow, maybe, that they didn’t believe in the independent deterrent anyway; the advocates of interdependence in the hardware field would be permanently silenced, but they were primarily trying to sell British goods anyway; etc.

Incidentally, I have received some moving letters from people living on the edge of Thor rocket sites. I received a very good letter, in particular, from a gentleman whose name I will not mention, but who is known to many hon. Members. He lives in Yorkshire. He says, "Whatever the Government say about Blue Streak must apply even more forcibly to the Thor, because Blue Streak was at least going underground.

Part 4: Attach the mylar streamer to your rocket using plastic packaging tape. Also see how to use carpenter's wood filler to seal the surface of the balsa wood fins. Part 5: The Blue Streak comes with a motor adapter that allows you to use smaller 13mm diameter motors in the kit as well as ...

Blue Streak rocket #F16. This was the last Blue Streak ever made and was rescued off the Hawker Siddeley Dynamics production line by Liverpool Museum in 1971. It is an example of a British-built liquid fuelled rocket. Blue Streak was initially designed as a ballistic missile. In 1954, as Cold War te

May 24, 2017 - This followed the military’s ‘Rainbow Codes’ where each code name began with a colour, followed by a noun selected from a list. Blue Streak would carry a nuclear warhead, capable of mass destruction. About 3,240 hectares of uninhabited moorland in Cumbria were chosen as the site for the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment.

An image of a British Blue Streak rocket, being transported on a large vehicle outside the assembly building. This photo belonged to Cyril Albert Knight, known to friends as Bill. Bill worked for W. Watson and Sons Ltd - based in Barnet in Hertfordshire, specialists in optical instruments.

September 17, 2025 - The Blue Streak Rockets was a three-girl act of dubious morality that Dennis Tanner booked for a charity concert for the Over 60's Club‏‎ held in the Glad Tidings Mission Hall in March 1962.

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1961 January 30 - . LV Family: Blue Streak. Launch Vehicle: Europa I. Europa conference. - . Nation: Europe. Conference of 12 European nations held at Strasbourg to discuss a British and French proposal for a European satellite launcher development program.. 1961 November 3 - . Launch Site: Woomera. Launch Complex: Woomera. LV Family: Blue Streak.

June 6, 2019 - Australia’s part will be to provide the launch site for the Europa rockets. Since the Blue Streak is the first stage, it makes sense to use the launchpad and other facilities already built at Woomera for ELDO’s launch operations. This makes us the only non-European member of ELDO.

It was envisaged that from the mid-1960s that it would replace manned aircraft as the United Kingdom’s main nuclear deterrent. However, the missile project was cancelled in April 1960 and after a period of uncertainty by the mid-1960s Blue Streak was adopted as the first stage of the Europa 1 rocket being developed by the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO).

January 13, 2020 - Hopefully that film survived the war and I'll get to see it one of these days; but this public information film made twenty years later about Britain's short-lived contribution to the Space Race poignantly evokes a time long gone when nobody would then have worried about the carbon footprint left by the rocket launches we see based in Woomera and today even the Australian prime minister is being forced to consider the consequences of global warming as the bush blazes.

October 17, 2025 - Even though Blue Streak was cancelled ... want to just throw it all away. Blue Streak was then planned to be the first part of an all-British satellite launcher called "Black Prince". The second part would come from another British test rocket called Black Knight....

January 9, 2026 - The rocket was a 3 stage type that would have launches British, Australian and New Zealand space satellites if it had go ahead. The body consisted of Belgium, Britain, France, W. Germany, Italy and the Netherlands, with Australia as an associate ...