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From: rivero@dev8a.mdcbbs.com
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Subject: Re: I want to go to orbit...
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.164602.1@dev8a.mdcbbs.com>
Date: 8 Apr 91 16:46:02 GMT
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In article <33015@edsews.eds.com>, clairday@edsews.eds.com (Matt Clairday) writes:
> In article <1991Mar25.174621.3905@cs.mcgill.ca>, msdos@cs.mcgill.ca (Mark SOKOLOWSKI) writes:
>> 
>> 	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
> 
>   Mark, this shouldn't be any problem.  Just see your local nasa surplus
>   dealer for the relevant parts.  A bright guy like you should have
>   no trouble deducing the assembly instuctions from sifting through
>   relevant space shuttle articles of the period 1981-1990.
> 
> 
>> 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.
>> 
> 
>   I would suggest using stealth technology to hide your project from
>   the canadian govt. officials.  good luck, and happy holidays.


Now that we've all had a small chuckle over this gentlemans ambitions
(You're sailing WHERE, Christopher?), may I ask if anyone has seen of or heard
from Robert Truax lately. He is the ex-NASA rocket scientist who was building
his own 1 man orbital rocket a few years back. Last I heard, he had the booster
completed, and was trying to fund the actual vehicle.

Michael