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Amateur Rocket Heads Into Space

Posted by Hemos on from the fly-me-to-the-moon dept.

scubacuda writes "Space.com has an article on a group of amateur rocketeers (the Civilian Space Xploration Team) hoping to send the first amateur rocket, Primera Spaceshot 2002, into space by the end of June from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. If all goes well with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the team will send a rocket stands about 17 feet tall (5.18 meters) and weighs 550 pounds (249 kilograms) 62 nautical miles (114 kilometers) in the atmosphere (12 miles higher than the 50-mile altitude largely regarded as the boundary of space). (MSN version here)"

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  1. Better than NASA I hope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fucking dumbasses in NASA like mixing the metric and u.s. measurements in all their calculations. The u.s. should have a fucking clue and go witht he metric system, like the rest of the world.

  2. 20th post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Blah, narf, narf, grr.

  3. Re:Now if we could just... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    good troll with the shot at the president, now please go fuck yourself.

  4. Re:Solid, not liquid by owlmeat · · Score: 0, Troll

    No

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    They stab it with their steely knives,

    But they just can't kill the beast.

  5. Open Source Rocket? by Max+the+Merciless · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is this just a Rocket or is it a GNU/Rocket?

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    * * Always question "the National Interest" - 9 times out of 10 it is a cover for evil