On 21th June 2004 the first private spaceship 'spaceship one' was launched and reached space. Burt Rutan's company scaled composites showed the world that a vision can come true and inspired by their great achievement I started working on my own spaceship.
Detail of the opaque paper finish.
The parachute compartment Here the small parachute that will pull of the nosecone will be placed. I had to remake this because the earlier version had to little space to contain the parachute that turned out bigger then I thought.
Aluminium hatch for the parachute compartment
T.E.1 halfway it's first and succesfull testdrive. Aerodynamic properties exceeded the preliminary computed expectations.
