Copenhagen Suborbitals Seeking $10k In Crowdfunding For New Space Capsule

They conduct their launches from a marine platform that they tow out to sea using the fully functional submarine that they built for a previous project.

Also, in reply to the surprising number of negative responses questioning why a bunch of enthusiasts should build a giant rocket...
a) because it's awesome, and
b) because they can./. is a community of hackers (in the proper sense of the term), and building your own manned rocket qualifies as an epic hack. Technology shouldn't be just a shiny black box made by a corporation somewhere for us to consume in the approved ways... it should be something we tear apart and put back together, modify it and use it to unconventional ways that were never intended.

The world is full of black boxes, and full of people who want to tell us never to peak inside. Good on these guys for ignoring the nay-sayers and having the courage to build something awesome.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/d65GM6ImlaQ/copenhagen-suborbitals-seeking-10k-in-crowdfunding-for-new-space-capsule

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