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Title : Long range movie camera at Woomera, South Australia [photographic image] / photographer, W Brindle. 1 photographic negative: b&w, acetate Date : 1956
via National Archives of Australia
Woomera Rocket Range in the South Australian desert was a rocket launch site and is now mainly an aerospace testing centre. The Woomera Test Facility is the largest test range in the world. At 127 000 square kilometres it’s about the size of England. http://www.woomera.com.au/range/range.htm
Since the 50s and 60s Australia has dropped the ball on space science. It is a national embarrassment that Australia does not have a space agency. Australia is the only OECD country without a space program. If Bulgaria can manage to have a space agency then Australia can too.
In November 2008 the Senate Standing Committee on Economics recommended Australia create a space agency to coordinate the nation’s space science efforts (Senate Committee Report: Lost in Space? Setting a new direction for Australia’s space science and industry sector)
Love space exploration? Follow Space Rules

Filming at the Woomera Rocket Range, South Australia in the 1950s.
Have you ever made a decision based on a weather report? Have you found your way with a GPS or watched television? Then you have benefited from space science and space exploration.
Australia could be a world leader in space science punching above our weight but without any co-ordination or space policy we are foundering. The European Space Agency has even offered Australia associate membership which we can’t take up easily because we don’t have a space agency.
If Australia established a space agency it would be like the Australian Institute of Sport, but in space!
Seriously though, it’s something Australia needs to do. - Lyall

Mediocrity in sport is not tolerated in Australia. Why do we tolerate mediocrity in science and the arts.
Get with the program Australia and start a space agency.
In the mean time follow my new tumblr about space exploration - Space Rules

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Title : Long range movie camera at Woomera, South Australia [photographic image] / photographer, W Brindle. 1 photographic negative: b&w, acetate
Date : 1956

via National Archives of Australia

Woomera Rocket Range in the South Australian desert was a rocket launch site and is now mainly an aerospace testing centre. The Woomera Test Facility is the largest test range in the world. At 127 000 square kilometres it’s about the size of England. http://www.woomera.com.au/range/range.htm

Since the 50s and 60s Australia has dropped the ball on space science. It is a national embarrassment that Australia does not have a space agency. Australia is the only OECD country without a space program. If Bulgaria can manage to have a space agency then Australia can too.

In November 2008 the Senate Standing Committee on Economics recommended Australia create a space agency to coordinate the nation’s space science efforts (Senate Committee Report: Lost in Space? Setting a new direction for Australia’s space science and industry sector)

Love space exploration? Follow Space Rules

Filming at the Woomera Rocket Range, South Australia in the 1950s.

Have you ever made a decision based on a weather report? Have you found your way with a GPS or watched television? Then you have benefited from space science and space exploration.

Australia could be a world leader in space science punching above our weight but without any co-ordination or space policy we are foundering. The European Space Agency has even offered Australia associate membership which we can’t take up easily because we don’t have a space agency.

If Australia established a space agency it would be like the Australian Institute of Sport, but in space!

Seriously though, it’s something Australia needs to do. - Lyall

Mediocrity in sport is not tolerated in Australia. Why do we tolerate mediocrity in science and the arts.

Get with the program Australia and start a space agency.

In the mean time follow my new tumblr about space exploration - Space Rules