New Zealand's Rocket to Space - Mission Control

In classic Kiwi Style...
From the 'Mission control' (a tin shed), Peter Beck Launches New Zealand's first rocket into space! ...with the historic words:

"New Zealand, We are go for Space... ...You Fucken Beauty!!!"
Shepppardsays...

What they didn't see was the 747 that thing smashed into once it cleared the clouds.


...in all seriousness though, I was expecting it to come back down and drill that truck in the background.

teebeenzsays...

>> ^shadownc:

You would think on such a momentous occasion that they would wait for a sunny day so they could actually...you know...see the thing fly.


Its the middle of winter, not many sunny days. The actual project they're working on is quite smart. They deal with light weight payloads, allowing smaller projects to get space time cheaply where they'd normally need to piggy back n a larger more expensive project.

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