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A Grand Day Out For British Rocketman

Posted by timothy on from the low-grav-high-tea dept.

Instine writes "Salford University, in the UK, is showing an article suggesting that Britain's biggest ever rocket has been unveiled, by an academic planning a space tourism offering by 2013. 'Nova 2 qualifies as the biggest rocket ever created and flown from the UK mainland,' says Steve Bennett, Head of Salford's Space Technology Laboratory The current offering is said to amount to 20 minutes 'flight' and 3-4 mins floating. I'm not sure how much, but I'd pay for that."

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  1. Re:Eccentrics? by filthpickle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yet another reason the wife and I would love to move there... It's hard being a middle-class eccentric in a walmart culture.

    really?...How? You could...ummm....not shop at wal-mart?

    I would think that the only thing that would make it hard to be a middle class eccentric is that you aren't middle class, or you aren't eccentric. Don't see that wal-mart has anything to do with it.

    Or maybe you are just a little class conscious, in which case you probably would be happier in England.