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UK75, I sort of share your dream, but I think the Waverider space force is for the children (or possibly grandchildren) of the men who fly the Arrows and the TSR2s. Also I agree with Woomera being a better military than civilian liftoff site (although again, with Clarke's choice of a nuclear propulsion system for his fictional British civilian moon shot, the Australian desert was the only reasonable place to put it). There's been talk about a spaceport at Cape Yorke (northern Queensland, above the Tropic of Capricorn and better for near-equatorial orbit injection) for some time, but never more than talk. I suspect the civilian port (for developed technology) would have been there, with Woomera as the military pad and general proving ground.Another big what-if is India, and the extent to which it remains Anglophilic as opposed to approaching the Russians (to the extent that it did).
UK75, I sort of share your dream, but I think the Waverider space force is for the children (or possibly grandchildren) of the men who fly the Arrows and the TSR2s. Also I agree with Woomera being a better military than civilian liftoff site (although again, with Clarke's choice of a nuclear propulsion system for his fictional British civilian moon shot, the Australian desert was the only reasonable place to put it). There's been talk about a spaceport at Cape Yorke (northern Queensland, above the Tropic of Capricorn and better for near-equatorial orbit injection) for some time, but never more than talk. I suspect the civilian port (for developed technology) would have been there, with Woomera as the military pad and general proving ground.
Another big what-if is India, and the extent to which it remains Anglophilic as opposed to approaching the Russians (to the extent that it did).
