Britain Hasn’t Had a Rocket in Half a Century. Now the Black Arrow is Back.

~ Tom Chivers

The country’s only shot at a nuclear missile is inspiring a new shot at a future in space.

Scottish Parliament building

Read more at Smithsonian Air & Space magazine.

Published by Tom Chivers

I'm a science writer at the i newspaper. Before that, I was a freelance writer and science editor at UnHerd; until January 2018 I was science writer for BuzzFeed UK; before that, I was a comment and features writer for the Telegraph, having joined in 2007. I've written two books, "How to Read Numbers" with my cousin David Chivers, and "The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy".

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