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DIT students building rocket in Arctic

FewFew · 2012-03-14 09:56:08

A team of DIT students are currently in Sweden working on a capsule for the REXUS 11 rocket. For more info you can go here: http://spaceresearch.dit.ie/telescobe/ and follow their progress here: http://www.facebook.com/teamtelescobe There's also a Twitter... @TeamTelescobe . They're the first Irish team to be involved in…

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A team of DIT students are currently in Sweden working on a capsule for the REXUS 11 rocket.

For more info you can go here: http://spaceresearch.dit.ie/telescobe/

and follow their progress here: http://www.facebook.com/teamtelescobe

There's also a Twitter... @TeamTelescobe .

They're the first Irish team to be involved in the REXUS programme, and it's pretty cool that they're from DIT rather than elsewhere. Another feather in DIT's cap I guess.

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Good. I have a list of possible passengers. Are single tickets available?

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#3 15-03-2012 07:47PM

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Ah yeah, sure, the space is probably done by mass and volume and such jazz, so, no doubt a tiny skinny person would be within budget.

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