Dear reader,
I just want to share with you a bit about our daily work and processes at our facility HAB (Horizontal Assembly Bay). To understand how we come about things and how it is done, it is best to see it for yourself. Once in a while we have open-days where people can visit us or even join the process. But, you might be far away from Copenhagen so images must do the trick.
After reading and seeing this blog I hope you will come to the conclusion that our work is ridiculously simple and rough and maybe even deny the fact that this is a manned space program. If so, I will be happy because it is exactly the primitive approach we believe is the trick and just enough.
Copenhagen Suborbitals is a Danish registered association like any other group activity such as a soccer club or a “we-like-poodles”-club. It basically provides us with a government approved bank account with no personal tax related conflicts. Like I have told before we are not a registered business of any kind.
Within Copenhagen Suborbitals there are several sub groups. Roughly divided, they are launch vehicle, spacecraft and maritime operations. Peter and I are here full time earning our livings from doing lectures and speeches. Everyone else has their own full time occupation but is here (some almost full time) next to this and family. The full list of everyone participating can be seen here.
Basically work is taking place at HAB 7 days a week. However, Monday, Wednesday and Friday are long evenings where CS members show up. Last night was no exception and discussions and production began immediately. Most things is eagerly discussed 24 hours a day at our google group so most guys just begin working on specifics or else participating in fun and challenging discussion about solutions to crazy problems.
No one is getting paid. We offer (pay-off stolen from the Mars Society): Hard work, no pay, eternal glory. But mostly we are having fun and due to the great friendship between everyone the momentum of Copenhagen Suborbitals is growing fast.
Below you see some of the processes that took place last night.
I hope you are beginning to get an idea of the type of operation we are running here and eventually through blog posts becoming brain washed enough to join us in the belief that human spaceflight does not have to be a billion dollar government approved project.
See you soon.
Ad Astra
Kristian von Bengtson
