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Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio Norfolk Special Space Station Norfolk Norfolk and the space race

How Brancaster could have become the launch base for the British space programme.

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The Black Arrow rockets were tested at High Down on the Isle of Wight

This is the closest we have to what any base built in Norfolk might have looked like.

  • Brancaster
  • Writer Ed Couzens-Lake grew up in Brancaster
  • If a rocket base had been built here, this entire view could have changed forever
  • Paul Hayes studies the site
  • Plans for Norfolk
  • A suitable site
  • The Black Arrow rockets were tested at High Down on the Isle of Wight
  • The Isle of Wight testing site overlooks the famous Needles
  • A model of a Black Arrow rocket of the type tested by being static-fired on the Isle of Wight
  • A full-size model of the X3 satellite, Prospero, successfully launched by a Black Arrow rocket in 1971
  • A real one!
  • R4 is a real rocket which would have been launched had the project not been cancelled
  • Open wide!
  • In the end the testing range at Woomera in Australia was used as the launch site for Black Arrow, rather than Norfolk
  • On display with the rocket is the real satellite which was the launch spare for Prospero
  • Douglas Millard is the curator of the space gallery at the Science Museum
  • Scale models of a range of space rockets - Black Arrow is the red-tipped model on a shelf, next to the little yellow rocket

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  • Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Radio Norfolk Special—Space Station Norfolk

    Paul Hayes looks at how Brancaster was almost the home of Britain's own space programme.

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