A Vertical Empire History of the British Rocketry Programme

Ch. 1. Introduction. Places. Political and administrative matters. Politics -- ch. 2. Rocket motors. Rocket motors in the UK. HTP. Hydrogen. Solid fuel motors -- ch. 3. Rocket interceptors. Designs in detail. Facts and figures -- ch. 4. Blue steel -- ch. 5. Blue streak - the origins. The warhead. A solid fuel design? The missile design -- ch. 6. Blue streak - the 'underground launcher' -- ch. 7. Blue streak - the cancellation. BND(SG). Origins of Skybolt. Unpopularity of blue streak -- ch. 8. BSSLV. A liquid hydrogen stage. Blue streak with a centaur upper stage -- ch. 9. The European Launcher Development Organisation - ELDO. The political failure of ELDO -- ch. 10. Europa. The launches. Improving Europa. Europa III -- ch. 11. Black Knight. ch. 12. Black Knight and the re-entry experiments. Black Knight launches. Project dazzle. Summary of Black Knight launches. Crusade and the 54-inch Black Knight. How successful was Black Knight? Was Black Knight good value for money? -- ch. 13. Black Arrow. The flights. The cancellation. Black Arrow improvements -- ch. 14. The 'might have beens'. A Black Knight IRBM. Could Britain have launched an astronaut into orbit? Alternative histories -- ch. 15. Conclusions. Could the UK once again become involved in a launcher programme?