On 21th June 2004 the first private spaceship 'spaceship one' was launched and reached space. Burt Rutan's company scaled composites showed the world that a vision can come true and inspired by their great achievement I started working on my own spaceship.
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scaled composites Spaceship One

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first design drawings of my rocket

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the engine is a 9 liter pressure vessel made out of PET bottles

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Today I started on a paper model. It should be big enough to launch my neighbor's dog with this one. It's a Pinscher and should be no problem.

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carcdboard mock-up

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I enlarged the volume of the pressure vessel by 3 liters so it's now 1.70 long and has a volume of 12l.

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The wooden skeleton completed. Total size is now 220cm x 21 cm

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The fins. This part is detachable for transport.

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nosecone made out of balsa wood with room for parachute

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Today I covered the fins with 1mm balsawood. Starting to look like a rocket..

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hatch for the parachute compartment, in this compartment the little parachute for the nosecone is placed
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The lower part of the rocket covered with aluminium. It actually turned out to heavy so I'll remove it.
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