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Title: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: Blazin on October 12, 2011, 09:45:52 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HTwbpjBUOk&feature=player_embedded

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: Lt.Del on October 12, 2011, 10:01:44 pm

8 seconds of power is all it took to get that rocket to 121000 feet.  Amazing that after 10,000 feet elevation, going Mach 3, there is no more power--just momentum to take it the other 111,000 feet. Amazing.  And, to land, after climbing 23 miles, only 3 miles from launch site....incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvDqoxMUroA
16 minute video of same launch--extended coverage

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: Irish_Alley on October 12, 2011, 11:59:35 pm

im impressed that’s all I can say right now lol. never been in a airplane so ive only seen the world from the ground up

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: bake74 on October 13, 2011, 08:11:42 pm

     First thing first, that is so cool.  Now I wonder if he had to get special permission to shoot that off, or did he just start an international incident.  ::) ???

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: velojym on October 13, 2011, 11:19:03 pm

Yep, definitely need FAA clearance for that sort of altitude. I can't even go higher than 18,000 ft in an airplane without filing an IFR flight plan... not that anything I fly would go that high anyway.
Also, I'd imagine that Homeland inSecurity has probably added a bunch of new rules in the last few years.

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: 1979C20 on October 15, 2011, 08:25:07 am

Okay, man can build a rocket that almost completely left the.atmosphere with 8 second of thrust, and not much fuel, but we cant get away from fossil fuel vehicles that get 8 miles a gallon.

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: Irish_Alley on October 15, 2011, 09:20:02 am

well the new trucks get more than twice that

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: slammed79 on October 19, 2011, 07:25:38 am

I wanna be the first fat guy in space... gotta look up how to do that. lol

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: velojym on October 20, 2011, 09:50:04 pm

Quote from: slammed79 on October 19, 2011, 07:25:38 am

I wanna be the first fat guy in space... gotta look up how to do that. lol

Hopefully, with more private concerns taking up space travel, you won't have to go beggin' the only game in town.
I'm pretty sure there'll be a research foundation that you may be able to talk into doing a scientific study on you. (or me, for that matter)
Can't always just measure health and physical effects of space travel on genetic supermen, ya know.

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: slammed79 on October 20, 2011, 11:18:48 pm

I can just see that conversation! Me: " Hi! Imma fat guy thats a pack and a half a day smoker. Wanna send me into space?" Them: "SECURITY!!!!"

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: beastie_3 on October 21, 2011, 07:51:44 pm

anyone know what that stuff was over the camera after it landed? not on the lens. it looked melted.

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: 1979C20 on October 21, 2011, 07:53:45 pm

It was melted. If you watch the longer video they say so, and that was the melted plastic on the lens

Title: Re: Homebuilt rocket does 121,000 feet!
Post by: Irish_Alley on October 21, 2011, 08:44:02 pm

it was a plastic protective cover that wasn’t meant to see heat lol