One of the major reasons for the cancellation of the space program was Britain was at the same time developing Concorde (with the French). There was only enough

One of the major reasons for the cancellation of the space program was Britain was at the same time developing Concorde (with the French). There was only enough money for one of them and it was decided concorde was more likely to be commercially successful. Other people think concorde is an masterpice of engineering but I'd have preferred the rockets. On the other hand a lot of the research and technology went into the European Space Agency so it wasn't a total waste.