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Article: Countdown to Kiwi rockets; SPACE BID
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- The Press
- Article date:
- August 15, 2007
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A Kiwi company has high hopes of rocketing into space, outlining
bold plans to send scientific packages, DNA and human ashes above the
Earth.
Auckland firm Rocket Lab, co-directed by Christchurch's Mark
Rocket, has announced plans to launch six rockets into space,
probably blasting off from the South Island, and starting in
September next year.
The rockets would travel 150km above Earth and could be used for
scientific research, said Rocket, the project's business development
manager.
Rocket Lab had also signed a deal with American firm Celestis to
send human ashes into space.
Based in Houston, Texas, Celestis has offered "space burials"
since 1997, firing off rockets containing the ...