" Space Oddity " was released on 11 July, five days ahead of the Apollo 11 launch, to become a UK top five hit.

Amstrad has been a major supplier of set top boxes to UK satellite TV provider Sky since its launch in 1989.

STR profiling was further refined by a team of scientists led by Peter Gill at the Forensic Science Service in the 1990s, allowing the launch of the UK National DNA Database ( NDNAD ) in 1995.

An album launch gig took place at The Forum, London on 18 March followed by UK, European and US tours in support of the release.

One of the most famous of Lloyd George's intrigues was the withholding of reinforcements in the UK early in 1918 in order to limit Haig's ability to launch further offensives.

The plan was to provoke a German reaction by laying mines in Norwegian waters, and once Germany showed signs of taking action UK troops would occupy Narvik, Trondheim and Bergen and launch a raid on Stavanger to destroy Sola airfield.

* 1962-- Earth-Success Ariel_1 The first British satellite in space, making UK the third country to launch a satellite ( built by NASA, launched on American rocket )

Following the launch of his film Harry Brown, Caine called for the reintroduction of national service in the UK to give young people " a sense of belonging rather than a sense of violence ".

The UK had to wait nearly three years for the Samara to go on sale after its launch in the USSR, but sales were reasonably strong when the first versions of the car left forecourts in November 1987.

In Europe, prior to the launch of Astra 1A in 1988, the term DBS was commonly used to describe the nationally-commissioned satellites planned and launched to provide TV broadcasts to the home within several European countries ( e. g. BSB in the UK, TV-Sat in Germany ).

The programme was initiated by the UK and the first launch was planned for November 1966, but the first two stage launch occurred in August 1967, with three stages ( Europa 1 ) in November 1968.

He joined Talk Radio UK for its launch in February 1995 where he became known as a shock jock.

The opening of the museum coincided with the UK launch of the Jaguar XJ12 which made it an appropriate week for celebrating the UK motor industry.

During the late 1970s Chrysler era, Simca produced the new 160 / 180 saloon, 1307 range ( Chrysler Alpine in the UK ) and later the Horizon ( Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon in the USA ), both of which were European Car of the Year on their launch.

* October 8 – Picture Page ( UK ) is first broadcast as part of the BBC's test transmissions in the run-up to launch ( 1936 – 1939 ; 1946 – 1952 )

Broadcasting returned to the main newsroom at 9pm on 6 May 2010, for the launch of Sky News HD and the results of the 2010 UK general election.

In the build-up to this launch, they have been upgrading their studios and several bureax both in the UK and around the world to be able to broadcast in HD.

Shortly before the loss of its franchise, Thames partnered with the BBC to launch UK Gold, an archive channel dedicated to classic programming from the archives of both broadcasters.

However, although the updated Taunus was introduced to Continental Europe in January 1976, Ford were able to continue selling the Cortina Mark III in undiminished numbers in the UK until they were ready to launch its successor as the Dagenham built Cortina Mark IV, which went on sale on 29 September 1976.

However, at launch only 1. 3-engined cars could be ordered in the UK with the two-door body, and then only with " standard " or " L " equipment packages.

In the UK the Viva's principal competitors at the time of its launch included the well-established Ford Anglia and Morris Minor.

Chrysler UK did not launch its Chrysler Sunbeam for two years, while it was five years before British Leyland came up with the Austin Metro.

* Tyndall Centre – Assessing the potential for geological carbon sequestration in the UK

* Frequently Asked Questions about BCG Professor P D O Davies, Tuberculosis Research Unit, Cardiothoracic Centre, Liverpool, UK.

Images of life around the UK were added in replacement later with the same music, together with footage of the newsroom and exterior of Television Centre.

* 1995: Thursday 27 April 1995, the purchase of a book by Paul Stanfield, Product Manager for CompuServe UK, from W H Smith ’ s shop within CompuServe ’ s UK Shopping Centre is the UK ’ s first national online shopping service secure transaction.

To support the album, Brooks embarked on a 1994 UK tour, selling out venues such as Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and London's Wembley Arena.

* The Inforce Foundation ( International Forensic Centre of Excellence ), UK

* Centre for Water Science, Cranfield University, UK

* The UK NEO Information Centre

* 1974 – 1978, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

* 1983, Renault Distribution Centre, Swindon, UK

* 1996, National Sea Life Centre, Birmingham, UK

* 2004, McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, UK

The National Oceanography Centre, which records tides at tidal gauges placed in about 55 ports of the UK Tide Gauge Network on an ongoing basis, records the highest mean tidal change between 1987 and 2007 at Avonmouth in the Severn Estuary of.

* Birmingham Nature Centre – UK breeding program.

In 2008, she showed a large retrospective exhibition, Between The Sky And My Head, at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, UK.

* Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex, UK

Examples include the National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, USA ), the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory ( GFDL, in Princeton, New Jersey, USA ), the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research ( in Exeter, UK ), the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, or the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l ' Environnement ( LSCE ), France, to name but a few.

* mac ( Birmingham ), formerly known as the Midlands Arts Centre, in Birmingham, UK

Mark Stevens is based in the UK where he is the Creative Director of the Pentecostal Church's Abundant Life Centre in Bradford.

The Bridgwater Arts Centre was opened on 10 October 1946, the first community arts centre opened in the UK with financial assistance from the newly established Arts Council of England.

* Matilda Centre, a social and community centre in Sheffield, UK

Semi-erect, prickle-free blackberries were first developed at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, and subsequently by the USDA-ARS in Beltsville, Maryland.