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Aug. 08, 1964 - A Space Rocket That Will Never be Blasted off from a Launching Pad: Ready for action but this space rocket will never be blasted off from the launching pad instead it will be given the shakes. The rocket, a Europa 1, is assembled inside a special test tower which has been built at the Hawker Sidderley Dynamics Factory in Hayfield, Hert. It will be shaken about violently during a series of scientific test, and from its reactions, record on more than 200 instruments, engineers will be able to tell where such a rocket will stand up to the strain of a blast-off from Woomera Australia, in 1966. The test on it are part of a combined research programme run by Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Parts of the rocket have been arriving at Hatfield since December, and British, French and German technicians put together. Photo shows the European three stage satellite rocket Europ1 built inside its testing tower at Hawker Siddeley Dynamics at Hatfield, Herts, yesterday
