http://www.metafilter.com/tags/starchaser Posts tagged with 'starchaser' at MetaFilter. Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:21:21 -0800 Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:21:21 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/24866/rocket%2Dstarchaser UK rocket builder Steve Bennett is working on the worlds first private maned spaceship built by his company <a href="http://www.starchaser.co.uk/">Starchaser</a> with the Nova II announced Thursday. The new rocket will be shipped to the United States and dropped unmanned over the Red Lake Drop Zone in Arizona from 14,000 feet to test its landing systems. If successful, a manned test will take place before the summer, making it Britain's first ever manned rocket capsule. The tests will allow the team to move on to building their ultimate rocket, Thunderbird. Starchaser is confident that Thunderbird will blast off into the history books in 2005, netting the company $10 million from the <a href="http://www.xprize.org/teams/teams.html">X-Prize</a>. Others say it's <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1407210.stm">suicide</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24866 Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:21:21 -0800 rocket spaceship starchaser x-prize stbalbach