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Space Transportation Science

Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle 153

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."
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Designing the World's Tiniest Manned Suborbital Vehicle

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  • Re:You WILL watch... (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @01:38PM (#40078405)

    I may be misreading the schematics, but it appears the the parachute is stowed at the feet, but the anchor point is at the head. So when you descend, you'll be (gently?) flipped back over by the drag, then fall feet-first.

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