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#1 2004-05-18 11:29:30
Re: Amateur rocket fired into space - Civilian Space Exploration
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"Run for it? Running's not a plan! Running's what you do, once a plan fails!" -Earl Bassett
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#2 2004-05-18 11:50:50
- Bill White
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Re: Amateur rocket fired into space - Civilian Space Exploration
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#3 2004-05-18 13:48:20
- Euler
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Re: Amateur rocket fired into space - Civilian Space Exploration
I am surprised that this has not been done before. Launching a suborbital rocket is not really very difficult.
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#4 2004-05-18 14:26:57
Re: Amateur rocket fired into space - Civilian Space Exploration
You would think it would not be too difficult to fill a long tube with fuel and launch it into space. I don’t claim to be a rocket scientist, but I suspect there is more to it than that.
So perhaps it was not so easy for the private sector to do, but maybe, thanks to these folks, it will be.
Perhaps we are seeing the first steps to Mars and beyond.
"Run for it? Running's not a plan! Running's what you do, once a plan fails!" -Earl Bassett
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#5 2004-05-18 14:29:02
- clark
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Re: Amateur rocket fired into space - Civilian Space Exploration
They didn't just launch a rocket to LEO. They launched a payload into LEO.
Now that is impressive.
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#6 2004-05-18 14:29:52
- quasar777
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Re: Amateur rocket fired into space - Civilian Space Exploration
there`s a reason why this hasn`t been done. 9/11 restrictions. pre 9/11 there was an actual contest happening in the Northern Nevada desert.
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#7 2004-05-18 14:45:23
Re: Amateur rocket fired into space - Civilian Space Exploration
Good point clark. No one but a government has sent a payload into space, until now.
"Run for it? Running's not a plan! Running's what you do, once a plan fails!" -Earl Bassett
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#8 2004-05-18 15:05:35
- Rxke
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Re: Amateur rocket fired into space - Civilian Space Exploration
LEO? they didn't go orbital... It went 100km up, technically that's space, but still suborbital...
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#9 2004-05-18 15:35:00
- clark
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Re: Amateur rocket fired into space - Civilian Space Exploration
Hey, don't rain on my parade.
Pluto is a planet, and the rocket got to LEO. 
Someone isn't going to get that camera for Christmas if they don't behave...
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#10 2004-05-19 00:11:07
- Rxke
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Re: Amateur rocket fired into space - Civilian Space Exploration
*Mental image of Clark/Santa using amateur rockets to internationally send the presents through the chimneys of unsuspecting good kids' houses*
HOHOHO!
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