June 6, 2006
Man Plans Launching himself 20 Miles into the Air using Rail Gun
Stretch a carbon-fiber bowstring 24 feet along a rail, fire up a jet turbine with 1,350 pounds of thrust, hit a trigger, and pull 10 gs as his craft, modeled on spaceships from Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica, shoots to the stratosphere. Heâll plummet back to Earth using hydrogen peroxide rockets
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