] Almost ten years ago, in 1994, David Burkhead, myself,
] and a mismatched crew of science-fiction writers, model
] rocketeers, and techno-junkies started a project to
] design a home-built suborbital rocket. We called it
] SpaceCub The idea of SpaceCub was sparked by the (then
] recent) success of the tail-landing DC-X rocket, and
] fueled by the thought, wow, wouldn't it be cool to have
] one of those to fly around in The key insight that gave
] the project momentum was the realization that, while
] everybody wants to go to orbit, it would not be nearly as
] hard to design a vehicle to fly to the edge of space
] (defined as 50 miles or 100 kilometers, depending on
] who's doing the definition). That task would be
] relatively simple, compared to the difficult challenge of
] getting into orbit-in fact, it might even be in the range
] of something you could build in your garage.