Space.com have a story today about Brian Walker, a maverick inventor, from Oregon USA.
Sometime in the spring of 2002, a man who has somehow become known to the world as "Rocket Guy" plans to launch himself 30 miles (48 kilometers) straight up in a rocket of his own making.
Brian plans to build everything he needs for the trip, with the exception of things like the CD player (which, if he decides to turn it on, will be playing David Bowie?s "Space Oddity"), the digital camcorders that will record the flight from eight different perspectives and the custom-built Ricarro racecar seat.
You can read the whole story, here.
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