Al-Abid | Know Your Rocket

Today we look at one of the stranger looking rockets, Al-Abid, and discuss a brief history of the short-lived ill-fated Iraqi space program. Designed by Gerry Bull's Space Research Corporation and made of Soviet SRBMs, what could possibly go wrong?

Footage is used for educational purposes.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/202404122...
2. https://web.archive.org/web/202401200...
3. https://web.archive.org/web/202405302...
4. https://www.thespacereview.com/articl...
5. https://www.thespacereview.com/articl...
6. Sarmad D.S. Dawood
7. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSA...
8. Voice of America
9. UNMOVIC
10.    • Iraq Space Rocket Al-Abid  

Music

Egmont Overture Finale by Kevin MacLeod
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Motherlode by Kevin MacLeod
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