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Title: amateur manned spaceflight
Post by: deflective on August 23, 2010, 12:01:21 AM

'I don't know how to say we're towing our shed-built rocket to sea using our homemade submarine without sounding smug.'
the first test launch (dummy in the capsule) is in a week.

rocket testing (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3271649&userid=49790)
launch platform (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3271649&pagenumber=16#post381212767)
copenhagen suborbitals' website (http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/index.php)

Title: Re: amateur manned spaceflight
Post by: knigget on November 08, 2010, 03:04:56 AM

There was this one guy who promised it for years but never really delivered:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbCv6b96OK0

Title: Re: amateur manned spaceflight
Post by: Planish on December 17, 2010, 11:50:24 PM

Quote from: knigget on November 08, 2010, 03:04:56 AM

There was this one guy who promised it for years but never really delivered:

Here's another:
(http://www.davethewinemerchant.com/onlinewineshop/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/to-The-Moon-Alice2.jpg)

 :D

[edit: Hah. That's what I get for not clicking on the link.  :-[
Great minds ... blah-blah-blah]

Title: Re: amateur manned spaceflight
Post by: Sgarre1 on December 18, 2010, 12:07:08 AM

quoting from FUTURAMA (Fry's reaction to the "Man dreamed of going to the Moon" exhibit that features Ralph and Alice)

"But he wasn't talking about spaceflight - he was using it as a metaphor for beating his wife!"