Amateur Space Shots?

[Gym_Class_Hero]

Just wondering. Have there been any other amateur space shots than Space Ship One and CSXT?

 

[reverend]

Not that I'm aware of, and I'd like to point out a couple things. As far as I'm aware, CSXT is the only amatuer rocket to have achieved this. I personally don't really consider SpaceShipOne as an amatuer attempt, as it was accomplished by a commercial entity. SS1 was however the first manned spaceflight not performed by a government entity.

"Sugar Shot To Space" www.sugarshot.org is a project I'm following along on trying to put a "sugar rocket" to the 100km line. They've already completed test firings of a 1/4th scale model motor.

I'm sure there are lots of other amatuer attempts in the works.

I plan on being the first amatuer to shoot a rocket to the moon.

 

[Gym_Class_Hero]

Are you on a Google Lunar X-Prize team?

 

[Andy44]

Funny, I didn't know the amatuer rocket had the same name as a major railroad company, CSX Transportation.

 

[MajorTom]

:rofl:

Brilliant!


...with a suitably inclined ramp, and enough locomotives pushing from behind...maybe, just maybe....

 

[reverend]

Are you on a Google Lunar X-Prize team?

No. I'm not intending on landing a robot there. I'm planning on slamming something into the moon at interplanetary velocity.

 

[reverend]

Funny, I didn't know the amatuer rocket had the same name as a major railroad company, CSX Transportation.

Actually, CSXT was the name of the team... Civilian Space eXploration Team. The name of the rocket was GoFast, named after a commercial sponsor none the less, GoFast Sports.