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DIY an orbiter vehicle?

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DIY an orbiter vehicle?
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This is as close as you're going to get, OP.
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>>925254
I dunno, anyone as dumb as OP would have a hell of a time making the mold for the fiberglass shell, much less reliable mechanisms beneath.
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if you want to build a thing that lives in space, build a cubesat.

if you want to build a rocket that gets into orbit, you're daft. Your goal should be reaching 30km, which is still really hard.
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>>925259
Or this
http://www.picaxe.com/Project-Gallery/50SAT/
If you use the term "vehicle" liberally enough, that is.
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You could build a clone of the russian soyuz module for a few hundred thousand dollars and pay some organisation to launch it for you. They're quite small and much simpler than that shuttle orbiter pictured.
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Step 1: Be Elon Musk.
Step 2: Start multi billion dollar per year aerospace company.
Step 3: ?????
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>>925254
Reasonably easy if you have the workshop manual
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>>925841
Forgot to add:

"And still can't do it yet."
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Did you read my starfighter thread on /k/, OP?
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