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UK Space Agency wants primary school kids to design a logo for first Brit launches

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Re: Dan Dare

Back in t'day when I wor a young researcher (and dinosaurs roamed the Earth)

There was a French European plan to launch a couple of French European astronauts in a Apollo capsule with wings SpacePlane on top of a French European rocket to demonstrate the superiority of French European technology.

Suspicious that this was a French plot to engrandise France the Brits not only vetoed the program but introduced a law banning British involvement in any ESA manned mission

Among the UK scientists the mission, officially Hermes, was known as "Frogs in Spaaaaaaace"

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