Amateur rocket fired into space

Posted on: May. 18th, 2004 || Source: news.bbc.co.uk | E-mail Article | Print Article

An amateur unmanned rocket has been launched into space from the Nevada desert - the first time this has been achieved by a privately-built vehicle.



The Civilian Space eXploration Team's 6.5m (21ft) GoFast rocket is understood to have exceeded an altitude of 100km.



It just roared off the pad and flew into space," said rocketeer and CSXT avionics manager Eric Knight.



The GoFast vehicle and its payload sent back signals from space before falling down to Earth for recovery.

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