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Non-Profit Space Rocket Launching In a Week

Posted by samzenpus on from the diy-to-the-stars dept.

Plammox writes "A non-profit suborbital space endeavor lead by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen is trying to put a man in space. The first test of the boosters and space craft in combination with the sea launch platform will take place this week. The catch? All of this is a non-profit project based on voluntary labor and sponsors. How will they get the launch platform out in the middle of the Baltic sea to perform the test? With the founder's home-built submarine pushing it, of course."

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  1. If you like it, please, donate by roger_pasky · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm proud to be a donor, and this is one of the best expenditures I've ever done.

    Once I knew about them one year ago (through Slashdot, by the way) I told my wife: "If I stop being a rocket modelling fan forever, will you let me give them the money I planned to spend on rocket models for the rest of my life? It could be the way to be part of a really big thing".

    And she said: "Ok, but I don't want to know if he dies or not".

    I think it's a fair deal, so I gave them a huge amount of money and I won't tell her about the final result.