rocket starchaser
April 3, 2003 8:21 PM Subscribe
UK rocket builder Steve Bennett is working on the worlds first private maned spaceship built by his company Starchaser 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 X-Prize. Others say it's suicide.
That is just whacked...
More power to him, but he sounds like he's a disaster in the making.
posted by Windopaene at 12:16 AM on April 4, 2003
More power to him, but he sounds like he's a disaster in the making.
posted by Windopaene at 12:16 AM on April 4, 2003
From what I understand, John Carmack (Doom, Quake) is also trying to win the X-prize.
My money is on Carmack.
posted by bondcliff at 6:54 AM on April 4, 2003
My money is on Carmack.
posted by bondcliff at 6:54 AM on April 4, 2003
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