Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle

cylonlover writes, quoting Gizmag: "Generally speaking, companies developing suborbital manned vehicles brag about how much elbow room their spacecraft will provide passengers. They say there will be plenty of room to float around during the weightless portion of the flight, that there will be no fighting for windows, that passengers will comfortably endure the high-g portions of the flight ... and then there's Copenhagen Suborbitals' Tycho Brahe. CS's Tycho Brahe is a one-passenger capsule intended for a purely ballistic flight to a peak altitude approaching 100 miles. The passenger is just along for the ride, with no mechanism to steer or otherwise pilot the capsule."

You WILL watch...

[icebike]

Looks so small you haven't even got room to put you hands up to cover your eyes, let alone wipe your breakfast off the glass.
One can only hope the canopy is made of Peril Sensitive glass [hhgproject.org], and you get the option of editing any inflight videos so your friends don't get to see you screaming like a schoolgirl.
I hope they subcontract with Depends, because you know someone's going to need them, especially since the parachute is at the bottom, and the final descent should be sufficiently terrifying that you wouldn't want anything else floating around your screaming mouth.

Re:You WILL watch...

[Moheeheeko]

On this weeks episode of "Who Wants to be a Human Cruise Missile...."

"ballistic"

[Tifer]

I think I'd be too caught up with the "human projectile" aspect of the flight to ride this myself. Science!

Americans need not apply

[vlm]

an average adult male build and a weight of 70 kg (154 lbs)

Americans need not apply. This is "SMART CAR" sized not "SUV" sized.

alpha testing

[tverbeek]

From the web site, about an unmanned test flight last year:

Due to trajectory anomaly the spacecraft was separated and the parachutes had to be deployed during great speed in order to save it. The parachutes were not able to deploy correctly due to the speed but even with a "knot" of parachutes we had a low enough impact on water to recover Tycho Brahe as one piece.

I think I'll wait until a few more "successful" test flights have been performed.

Cleverly named...

[Un pobre guey]

.. after the largest crater on the moon.