Aylesbury Vale
NOVEMBER 2016 | ISSUE 20 AYLESBURY VALE aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk • Local business focus: The Vale entrepreneurs who tamed a Dragon! • Find out how can make your life easier • Vale Lottery’s 1st birthday bonanza! ALSO: What’s on this Christmas, Strictly’s Brendan Cole, competitions & lots more! News from Aylesbury Vale District Council 1 • Vale business focus A rocket-fuelled boost to business in the Vale Once a World War Two training base, Westcott Venture Park, near Aylesbury, has evolved to become the and tested by Moog UK home of rocket research for defence and space ©NASA UK Westcott. The development. AVDC is playing a key role in its future JUNO Mission forms expansion, as it has become one of three locations in one of the spacecraft the Vale to secure Enterprise Zone status. in NASA’s New ©NASA Originally created as a Frontiers Programme. training base for bomber No probe has ever got crews, the 650-acre site as close to Jupiter as Juno Mission probe became a government this mission will go. research centre in 1946, For Westcott Venture Park, it seems the future holds no known as a Guided bounds. As a major space production hub, the UK Space Projectile Establishment. Agency has announced it’s investing more than four million Early research focused on rocket engine propellants pounds in a National Propulsion Test Facility at the site, and rocket research. Over the subsequent years major giving the UK a new facility for space technology testing. missile propulsion programmes were developed, such as the Blue Streak, Black Knight and the top-secret In addition to this, Buckinghamshire Thames Valley Local Chevaline nuclear war-head project, while Westcott’s Enterprise Partnership, which includes AVDC, is investing rockets were also used for space missions, including the its own funding in an Innovation/Incubation Centre and 1990’s Mars exploration.
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