Crash Test: In the pursuit of private spaceflight, A group of Texas Rocket Enthusiasts aren't Afraid to Blow up a few engines


          

刊名：Popular Mechanics
作者：Jeff Wise
刊号：780B0072
ISSN：0032-4558
出版年：2006
年卷期：2006, vol.183, no.8
页码：78-80,82-84
总页数：6
分类号：TH16
语种：eng
文摘：IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT AT A BUSINESS park in a quiet suburb northeast of Dallas. The place is all but abandoned, the parking lot empty except for a cluster of cars parked around the corner. A late rain has slickened the black asphalt. A garage door opens. Six men wheel out a complicated, washing machine-size device and lower it to the bottom of a loading dock well. A wave of condensing vapor pours out over the pavement as they charge the apparatus. The men retreat. The machine hisses, then barks, and a howling blue flame thunders downward with a deafeningly apocalyptic roar, illuminating the cloud of fog from within like a miniature sun.



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