British Space Research: Annual Report of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy, 1958–59

DURING the past year (the Advisory Council stated) we were asked to consider the question of British participation in space research and, in particular, a proposal originating with a group of Fellows of the Royal Society led by Professor H. S. W. Massey, that the United Kingdom should embark upon a programme of scientific experiments in the upper atmosphere and in extraterrestrial space, by means of a series of earth satellites launched by vehicles developed from British military rockets adapted to this purpose.