Oct 8 1957

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Royal Society holds a press conference about Sputnik where Sir Owen Wansborough-Jones, chief scientist to the British Ministry of Supply stated that although his department was contributing rocket technology to the IGY program, his ministry was not interested in satellites from a defence perspective.

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