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Message to President Reagan (after the successful first flight of the Space Shuttle)
Document type: Public Statement
Document kind: Message
Venue: No. 10 Downing Street
Source: Thatcher Archive
Editorial comments: Dispatched at 19:08 GMT
Importance ranking: Minor
Word count: 81
Themes: Foreign policy (USA)
I was thrilled to hear that the flight of the Columbia has been successfully completed.
The development of the space shuttle, which opens a new era in the space age, has been a great achievement and I share with you the pride you must now be feeling.
Please convey to everyone involved — from the astronauts themselves to all the teams supporting them on the ground — my warmest congratulations on behalf of the British people. Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister.
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Seedhouse, E. (2017). You mean we have a space program?. In: TIM PEAKE and BRITAIN'S ROAD TO SPACE. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57907-8_2
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