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Podcast: Witness History
Episode: The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Description: In 2003, 21 people died when a space rocket exploded at Brazil’s Alcantara Launch Centre, three days before its planned flight.
It was the country’s third – and most serious - rocket failure in six years.
But despite the setback, just 14 months later, Brazil revived its space ambitions by successfully launching its first rocket since the tragedy.
Jacqueline Paine spoke to engineer Felix Palmerio, who spent decades working on a special project to develop a space rocket in Brazil, and who watched the launch.Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the pa...