Motorists on the M60 were surprised to see a lorry carrying a huge missile this month. But there was no need for alarm.
Since starting Starchaser Industries in 1998, Bennett and his team have come a long way from his early homemade experiments. The space entrepreneur has been making and launching his own rockets since he was a boy. 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." In 2017, Starchaser launched the 8.3-metre-tall Skybolt 2 from the back of a converted truck in Northumberland, making it the largest rocket operational in the UK at that time. Since Bennett founded Starchaser in the '90s, a number of high-profile billionaires and their deep pockets have entered the private space-travel industry.
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