Denmark's Non-Profit "HEAT 1X-TYCHO BRAHE" Spacecraft is Ready for Launch

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The world’s first volunteer-built, not-for-profit passenger rocket funded purely by donations and sponsorships is preparing for launch, ticking off a milestone in human spaceflight history.
 
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Copenhagen Suborbitals is a Danish non-profit rocket group lead by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen, who also are the designers and developers of the spacecraft known as HEAT 1X-TYCHO BRAHE. This spacecraft is meant to carry one of the two men into space. If the project is successful it will become the first Danish manned space mission. The $70,000 effort funded by private sponsors and donations includes the capsule, booster and an offshore launch platform.   Copenhagen Suborbitals.com   Wikipedia   Popular Science   BBC