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Anyone else seen this? Amateur rocket fired into space
A Yank getting more news/press in the UK than in the US. Sad.
Makes ya wonder about our news media. Mike Alaska Frank Scrooby wrote: Hi all Is this significant at all? So far only the BBC is reporting it (as far as I can see). Amateur rocket fired into space http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3724841.stm Quote from BBC website: " A 14-second burn allowed the rocket to reach an altitude of more than 100km - the official boundary of space - in about three minutes. It reportedly spent several minutes in space before beginning its descent. The rocket and the payload came down on separate parachutes. " Anyone? Regards Frank Scrooby |
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Anyone else seen this? Amateur rocket fired into space
Joe Strout wrote:
I rather prefer the BBC version in this case, though -- I'm so sick of hearing things like "space, defined as 62 miles above the earth." Miles. Sheesh. But anyway... That caveat is needed so that differentiate between the lower-end-of-spectrum 'spaceships' and the upper-end-of-spectrum orbital craft. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. |
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