The British Once Sent Rockets Into Space Carrying Grenades

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British and Space Program are two things which rarely appear in the same sentence. However, in the 1950s, they could be found together... along with grenades.

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Original Article:
http://www.factfiend.com/one-of-the-earliest-space-experiments-involved-grenades/

Sources:
https://www.le.ac.uk/ebulletin-archive/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2005/04/nparticle-vcz-vgw-y8c.html
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xwC2CnkD6JEC&pg=PA148&lpg=PA148&dq=skylark+rocket+grenades&source=bl&ots=K6OE6zclTM&sig=RalcLE5n5siOKrrSMkpNFcWrQ3w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BpEtVa36FoXqaNHfgYAN&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=skylark%20rocket%20grenades&f=false
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2367681.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/05/21/britain-launches-itself-back-into-the-space-race/

Videos:
Six Times the Boom!!! The Milkor M32A1 Grenade Launcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iryZ8iVPhmg
Sounding Rockets: "Establishing a Rocket Research Range" 1962 NASA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD2o9vv4xtk
The A-Team (2010)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0429493/
Breaking Bad (2008 – 2013)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0903747/
Independence Day (1996)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/
60 years on - Laika the dog in space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDbAh8RJMBg

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Skylark Launch, https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/skylark-britains-pioneering-space-rocket/
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