Space Danish: Non-Profit Space Group Set to Launch

[Caveat Emperor]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/danish-rocket

A team of Danish volunteers has built a rocket capable of carrying a human into space, and will be launching it in a week’s time. The project, which has been funded entirely by donations and sponsorship, is led by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen.

The rocket is named HEAT1X-TYCHO BRAHE, and its first test flight will carry a crash-test dummy, rather than a human, so that the safety aspects of the design can be analyzed. It’ll launch from a floating platform that the team has also built, which will be towed into the middle of the Baltic Sea by a submarine called Nautilus that the pair built as their last project.

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Really puts my hobbies of golf, collecting records, and playing Xbox to shame.

Pretty amazing stuff, though.

[Rojo]

Oh man, this thread isn't even a little bit about pastry.

[RichRed]

Oh man, this thread isn't even a little bit about pastry.

[Roy Tucker]

Yikes. That will take a large set of cajones to be the first human to ride that thing.

[Unassisted]

Oh man, this thread isn't even a little bit about pastry.

"Mmmm, space danish!"

[RFS62]

I guess the rocket could be a giant eclair