By ikluft, Section News Posted on Tue Nov 30, 2004 at 07:00:35 AM PST
The missing booster has been recovered from the CSXT/GoFast rocket that was the first private-funded launch to space on May 17 at Nevada's Black Rock Desert. The nose cone was found in 24 hours, and that had the electronics necessary to prove the successful space flight. But no signals were heard from the booster (motor & fins) and it was missing until now.
Several ground searches came up empty. The booster was finally found on Nov 10 by a BLM helicopter crew doing a survey of wild horses in some northern Nevada mountains. A 4x4 expedition organized by Stratofox to recover it succeeded in getting it out on Friday, Nov 26 just hours before a snowstorm arrived and made the site inaccessible.
Disclosure of my involvement in this story: I was a member of the recovery team and I took many of the pictures currently shown on the site. More pictures are expected to arrive from other team members soon.
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