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

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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)

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