THE BRITISH SPACE PROGRAMME -PROJECTS CANCELLED :1962-1971

RELEASE DATE:   30th April 2012                 PRICE: £14.99

Since the dawn of time, mankind has looked to the stars and wondered what lies beyond what we can see with the naked eye.....

This April, a new DVD from aviation specialist Strike Force Entertainment, entitled THE BRITISH SPACE PROGRAMME - PROJECTS CANCELLED : 1962-1971 reveals a fascinating insight into the achievements and exploits of the British Space Programme, which up until now has remained relatively unknown.

THE BRITISH SPACE PROGRAMME - PROJECTS CANCELLED : 1962-1971 is an archive-led documentary which celebrates the three major British rocket projects of the 1960s, each of which were cancelled, something that would later be seen as a national scandal!


THE BRITISH SPACE PROGRAMME - PROJECTS CANCELLED : 1962-1971 features the Blue Streak, which was designed and built by the De Havilland Aircraft company in the 1950s and the Black Knight, which was first designed in 1955 as a British launch vehicle to test and verify the design of the re-entry vehicle for the Blue Streak missile.  The DVD also re-lives the successful Black Arrow launch, which succeeded in orbiting the Prospero satellite, making the United Kingdom only the sixth nation in the world to successfully place its own satellite into orbit via an indigenously developed carrier rocket.

Containing over an hour’s footage, THE BRITISH SPACE PROGRAMME - PROJECTS CANCELLED : 1962-1971 includes two exciting additional bonus features.  The first feature, “The Hotol Project”, is the archive news compilation detailing the cancelled Hotol project which, at one point, was expected to claim over 90% of the market for satellite launches with its pioneering and cost-effective horizontal take-off and landing capacity.  The second bonus feature is “The Beagle-2 Project” which contains an overview of the Beagle-2 mission to Mars to search for signs of life.

THE BRITISH SPACE PROGRAMME - PROJECTS CANCELLED : 1962-1971 is available from all good retailers, priced at £14.99.  For more information visit www.strikeforcetv.com or follow Strike Force Entertainment onwww.fbook.me/SFE.