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1973: Blue Streak - What Remains of Britain's Space Program? | Nationwide | BBC Archive
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6:56Now PlayingJohn Swinfield reports from the abandoned rocket base at Spadeadam, near Carlisle. Spadeadam was previously the testing site of the Blue Streak rocket - originally planned as a replacement for Britain's V bomber nuclear deterrent, and subsequently repurposed as the first stage of the European Launcher Development Organisation's space research vehicle, Europa-1.
Government support for the space program ended recently. What will become of Blue Streak, and Spadeadam? What will the workforce do now?
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, 21 June, 1973.
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