Copenhagen Suborbitals, a Danish firm, plans a space adventure this year that may result in the world’s first ever amateur-built rocket for manned space travel outside of the United States, Russia, and China, [video].
Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen are the two ambitious men behind Copenhagen Suborbitals planning to place Madsen into space in a single passenger capsule, reports the METRO. The booster has been test-fired and the scheduled first flight is set for late August 2010 with the unmanned micro-spacecraft Tycho Brahe attached. The government-approved launch site is near Bornholm, Denmark on the Baltic Sea, [9min. video].
The first flight by Madsen may still be years away, however.
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