The United Kingdom Rocketry Association (UKRA) is an enabling body set up to promote and represent high power, medium power and model rocketry in the United Kingdom for educational, recreational and amateur research purposes.
External links
* [http://www.ukra.org.uk United Kingdom Rocketry Association]
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