Copenhagen Suborbitals prepare to launch first private rocket, astronaut into space

WANT to go to space?

You could pay millions to get on board someone else’s [Russia’s] spacecraft as a tourist, spend six years at uni garnering the relevant NASA qualifications [not these days, with the shuttle program having it’s death rattle and no replacement in sight], or hitch-hike aboard the next alien construction fleet that passes through.

Or you could just build your own.

Yankee ingenuity? Uh…not quite…

A group of engineers in Denmark are preparing to do just that – launch a home-built rocket, along with a human passenger, more than 100km into the sky.

Dubbed HEAT1X, the rocket will be launched from a floating barge in the sea just outside the Danish border, 12 nautical miles from shore.

And it will be towed out there by a submarine built by one of the men behind the rocket project.

Home-brew submarine?…Not a narrow range of interests! At this rate soon DENMARK will have a more active native manned spaceflight program than the US!?

Good for them, shame on us.