New Scientist Technology Blog: Spaceflight on the cheap

How much does it cost to put a rocket into space? Three engineering students at Cambridge University in the UK reckon they’ll be able to do it for just £1000 ($1879). And they’ve just sent a lunchbox-sized aircraft, called Nova 1, into the stratosphere where it captured some very nice pictures of the Earth and the upper atmosphere.

Wie kommt man nur auf so eine coole Idee?!