The sight of a lorry transporting a giant missile stunned motorists on the M60 this month, but they needn't have been alarmed.
READ MORE: 'It was amazing, there has never been anything like it around here. Nobody believed me when I told them'As well as carrying out research and development, the firm regularly makes educational visits to schools to encourage children to study science. After starting space tourism company Starchaser Industries in 1998, Bennett and his company have come a long way since his early homemade experiments.
In an interview with The Guardian newspaper in 2019, Bennett spoke about his time working as a lab technician which was when he started dabbling in building rockets again. "I was building them all over the house," he remembered. Speaking in 1997, the British space pioneer made another bold claim that seems to have been somewhat realised. He told the Manchester Evening News: "Space tourism will be with us within 25 years, and I will be one of the main people responsible for developing it."
This included a successful test flight of Discovery - the world's first privately funded fully re-usable two stage research rocket - in July 2000. Another landmark was the successful solo flight of NOVA, the largest rocket ever to be launched from British soil in November 2001.
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