{"id":15488,"date":"2012-06-14T09:51:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T14:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15488"},"modified":"2012-06-14T09:51:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T14:51:39","slug":"to-go-where-no-diy-project-has-gone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/to-go-where-no-diy-project-has-gone-before\/","title":{"rendered":"To go where no DIY project has gone before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Wired<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/06\/copenhagen-suborbitals-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Mosher<\/a> has a profile of a fascinating little group with a sky-high goal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Co-founders von Bengtson, an aerospace scientist and former NASA contractor, and Madsen, an entrepreneur and aerospace engineer, have a lot to be proud of since they founded their non-profit space program four years ago. In June 2011, for example, Copenhagen Suborbital\u2019s army of volunteers successfully built, launched and recovered a 31-foot-tall rocket \u2014 the largest \u201camateur\u201d launcher ever built \u2014 with a crash-test dummy tucked inside.<\/p>\n<p>That first prototype ended its flight two miles up, and the organization has yet to check off their ultimate goal: sending a person more than 60 miles above the Earth, a height widely considered the boundary of outer space. But now they are creating a bigger, better and badder space vehicle to get there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have gone from having a crazy idea on a submarine to a smoothly run organization that builds rockets and spacecraft, and has experience with big launches,\u201d said von Bengtson, who also blogs about the project for Wired at Rocket Shop. \u201cIt feels like we have become a part of a new era in space. I wouldn\u2019t trade that for anything. Not for millions of dollars.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Wired, Dave Mosher has a profile of a fascinating little group with a sky-high goal: Co-founders von Bengtson, an aerospace scientist and former NASA contractor, and Madsen, an entrepreneur and aerospace engineer, have a lot to be proud of since they founded their non-profit space program four years ago. In June 2011, for example, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,44],"tags":[273,716],"class_list":["post-15488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-space-science","tag-denmark","tag-spacecraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-41O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15489,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15488\/revisions\/15489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}