Portal:Spaceflight/Did you know/2008 Fortnight 12


 * …that to date, Britain has launched only one satellite, Prospero X-3, using a Black Arrow rocket (pictured)?
 * …that the crew of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Apollo spacecraft nearly died during re-entry due to a nitrogen tetroxide leak?
 * …that SpaceShipOne was the first manned spacecraft to be powered by a hybrid rocket motor?