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From: msdos@cs.mcgill.ca (Mark SOKOLOWSKI)
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Subject: I want to go to orbit...
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Date: 25 Mar 91 17:46:21 GMT
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	Hi,

	What are the steps in order to build a reliable space-shuttle like
spaceship in order to send myself to orbit for the summer holidays?
I'm thinking about a 20-30 ton rocket with a 900 kg payload made up of
a car sized hypersonic glidder, fitted with 3 rocket engines. There will
be 2 boosters of about 10 tons each, and a main liquid hydrogen-oxygen
tank of about 10 tons too. I have a Chalet near a lake with some forest
behind (covered with lots of other chalets and people... sighhh, but I
can manage to get a 50ft X 50ft field on which to start my project) where
I plan to launch this private space shuttle from an underground tunnel
(Ha ha... what a surprise for my neighboors: Is it an earthquake? No, ME!).
I guess I'll break the canadian law forbidding to send rocket of more
than 650 gramms (20 oz) in the air... but I'll land somewhere else.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

Mark