The Lebanese Rocket Society

The Telegraph

During the Sixties, America and the USSR competed for supremacy of the solar system. But history has overlooked a third space race contestant - a group of seven students at a university in Lebanon

A few years before they became the first Arabs to send a rocket into space, the members of the Haigazian College science club, in Beirut, encountered a problem. They had the materials to build a craft — some of which they’d bought with their own pocket money — but they still hadn’t produced a propellant.

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