[amsat-bb] Re: Dispelling a myth.

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On 5 Feb 2008, at 13:21, David Goncalves wrote:

If the question is "Why wasn't Great Britain involved with placing objects in space, until ESA?, is a possible answer "It's government does not have enough tax revenue to fund an expensive endeavor like high-mass space flight - and has been benefiting, like other European nations, from the pooling of funds and brainpower of ESA."

Great Britain launched the Prospero satellite over 35 years ago....

http://www.uk.amsat.org/content/view/307/86/

So we were involved before ESA..

John