FORKS — Two aerospace engineers striving to create an affordable and more timely commercial future in space hope to break through the ceiling of space in two weeks after a successful test launch four days ago.
“Yeah, we’re pretty close,” Space Transport Corp. Vice President Eric Meier, said Sunday, as he and his partner Phillip Storm prepare to launch another rocket 62.5 miles high.
In a remote West End location near Wentworth Lake, Storm and Meier on Thursday successfully launched a three-stage rocket to a 47-mile height.
About 10 witnesses were on hand at the launch, including C.L. Whorton, a space technology advancement supporter who allowed the use of his land for the blast off.
The 10-foot-tall, four-inch-diameter rocket cleared 150-foot-tall trees in a wooded area en route to its 3,340 mph rise, the third stage of which landed in the Pacific Ocean about 40 miles off the Olympic coast.
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The rest of the story appear in Monday’s Peninsula Daily News.