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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:Well.. by RocketGeek · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not the same guys at all. In fact I was fortunate enough to help out on the launch of the Top Gear Reliant Robin, and the people behind the Robin are in a different league. They are really clued up and know what they are doing when it comes to launching stunt rockets. Ironically, they were building the Top Gear Reliant Robin Shuttle no more than a couple of miles from Bennett, and he had no idea :-)