Iain Thomson at IDF in San Francisco, vnunet.com20 Aug 2008
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A space enthusiast who built a working 'space shuttle' in his garage has been
showing off the craft at this year's
Intel
Developer Forum in San Francisco.
Intel employee Morris Jarvis and a team of enthusiasts built the craft,
dubbed Hermes, in the garage of his suburban Phoenix home with the help of
technology companies like Intel, Dot Hill and Microsun.
"It will be ready to fly into low Earth orbit within a year," Jarvis told
vnunet.com. "All we need
now is some extra funding, but $1.5m would get it airborne."
Initial flights will use a balloon to lift the craft and passengers to
113,000ft before detaching and then being piloted back to Earth.
The next stage is to attach a booster and take it higher so that passengers
can experience about 15 minutes of weightlessness.
Jarvis estimates that the trip will cost about the same as a family car.
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