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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. yuo 7aIl it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    us the courtesy codeobase became

  2. Re:Biggest ever? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Probably oriented to the average American consumer.