Here's a group that are actively working toward it.
https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/nexo/
The video about 2/3 down the page is long, but pretty cool.
I saw that before but unless they get their "math" and motor formulation right, the G forces can blow out the vertebra of the back in the standing position. Many a pilot in the "Caterpillar Club" has height shortening from compression fractures after
punching out with an ejection seat. Better being a little short than being dead. Modern positioning has helped but in the earlier days of ejection seats was a problem. Momentary high G's along the axial axis of the spinal column is not desirable.
Kurt
Mad Mike Hughes X-2 Steam Rocket
Current King of the Daredevils
See Mad Mike...
Saturday April 2, 2016
Palo Duro Canyon Zip Lines
"The Grand Canyon of Texas"
(Outside of Amarillo, Texas)
MAD MIKE WILL BREAK HIS OWN RECORD FOR ...
"World Record for Longest Jump in Stunt History at 1,374 feet”
Yeah it was called Space Ship 1. Amateur with the respect it wasn't directly connected to the government or government agency. One person do it themself? I don't think so. Kurt
On April 1, 2004, Scaled Composites received the first license for suborbital rocket flights to be issued by the US Office of CommercialSpace Transportation. This license permitted the company to conduct powered test flights over the course of one year.
Remember this.
Evel Knievel was the first person I remember who rode a rocket as a stunt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel
He probably wasn't the first and isn't the last. Nevertheless it isn't sport rocketry.
Bob
Does this count?
[video=youtube;qRjb9cr7tIU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRjb9cr7tIU[/video]
Well, Mad Mike Hughes was supposed to launch himself this Saturday, April 2nd.
Now it's postponed for a month or so.
https://amarillo.com/news/latest-news/2016-03-29/daredevil-delays-jump-over-palo-duro-canyon
https://arstechnica.com/science/201...-texas-canyon-jump-after-brutal-rocket-tests/
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