I've been a bit quiet on this front lately, but the prompting of space geographer Fraser MacDonald, and the aerial Brett Holman's recent visit to the UK National Space Centre (Leicester) led me to add two more objects: the sounding rocket WAC Corporal (the subject of Fraser's research) and the lovely Blue Streak, of course. They join the V2 as the only rockets so far on the Space Heritage List.
Other rockets I should include are the Agena - plenty of them still in orbit, and no doubt on the ground, and in museums, Saturn V, Redstone, the R7 Semiorka, and Veronique and the Pierres Precieuses (still think that is a great name for a band). I tend to neglect rockets as I find them slightly less fascinating than satellites. It's also slightly harder to find out if there are extant examples, and then there is the question of their actual existence to begin with (see my earlier post on the identity of rockets).
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