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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. Well.. by Peter_The_Linux_Nerd · · Score: 5, Funny

    It might the biggest but it's not the best, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwIhEDq6tdY

  2. Re:Biggest ever? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suspect that the average tourist is fatter than the average astronaut

  3. Superhuman children? by MjDelves · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article: "Steve Bennett who heads up the University's Space Technology Laboratory, will be presenting his 58ft Nova 2 rocket at the University and will discuss how his company, Starchaser Industries plans to launch it in September 2009 with the help of school pupils from across the UK. "

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    How many kids does it take to reach escape velocity??

    1. Re:Superhuman children? by MancunianMaskMan · · Score: 3, Funny

      not fast enough for salford kids (recalls being beaten up by Salford kids in the past) (ducks)

    2. Re:Superhuman children? by CmdrGravy · · Score: 5, Funny

      You lived in Mosside and you actually went to school ! You must have taken some beatings for that.

  4. Obligatory Nick Park Comment by stokessd · · Score: 5, Funny

    The FUSE Grommet, you forgot to light the fuse!!!

  5. And I think it's gonna be a long, long time... by syrinx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bennett went on to say that he is not the man they think he is at home, and that he will be burning up his fuse up there alone.

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    Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
  6. Re:Umm...what's the point..... by Jellybob · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could use British Rail, but it'll cost you as much to get to Manchester as it does to get you into space.

  7. Re:Eccentrics? by stokessd · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's because Raid-5 is not really dingo-proof due to the second failure problem and the appetite of the average dingo being about 1.65 disk drives. Every Australian rural server farmer knows that to be safe you really need to go Raid-6. Either that or provide an AOL disk appetizer in front of the raid array.

    Sheldon

  8. Re:Headline of 2013 by fprintf · · Score: 2, Funny

    I dunno, it seems there are lots of people, like former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who are willing to pay "the price of a car" for 4 minutes of fun.

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  9. Britains Apollo Program by bugeaterr · · Score: 3, Funny


    A little known, slightly less ambitious project (more reasonable, really),
    whose announcement was plagiarized by John F. Kennedy:

    It is our goal... goal... goal... (echo)

    Before the decade is out... out... out...

    To send a carrier pigeon to West Staines and return him safely to Slough.