Blue Streak Today
Following the cancellation of the Blue Streak project some of the remaining rockets were preserved at:
- The National Space Centre in Leicester, England.
- The Deutsches Museum at Oberschleißheim near Munich
- The National Museum of Flight in East Fortune, Scotland.
- The Euro Space Center in Redu, Belgium.
A section of the propulsion bay, engines and equipment can be found at the Solway Aviation Museum, Carlisle Lake District Airport. Only a few miles from the Spadeadam testing site, the museum carries many exhibits, photographs and models of the Blue Streak programme having inherited the original Spadeadam collection that used to be displayed on site.
An RZ2 engine is on display at Armagh Planetarium, Northern Ireland and The Euro Space Center in Redu, Belgium.
Footage from the Blue Streak launch was briefly incorporated into The Prisoner's final episode, "Fall Out". A part of the Blue Streak rocket launched on 5 June 1964 from Woomera, Australia, found 50 km SE of Giles in 1980 is on display at Giles Weather Station. Another piece was located in 2006 but its exact location has been kept secret by the finders. The titanium structure of a German third stage was, for some time, sited on the edge of a gravel pit in Gloucestershire. Images of the Blue Streak 1 are incorporated in the Australian film Contact.
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