Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Also been watching Homemade Astronauts on Discovery sat 10 pm.
Bunch of nutters, last week during the steam rocket launch, the chute didn’t deploy and it came straight back down from a few thousand feet sadly killing the guy in it. They think the nozzle shifted off centre knocking him unconscious and unable to deploy the chute. His previous landing he hurt his back ( which he had broken 3 times! )
They were ultimately planning to launch him into space sitting on a hammock fitted inside an old aircraft drop tank with a hatch cut into it, the idea was to lift it to high altitude by balloon then fire up the rocket engine driving it through the balloon and into space.
Pretty sure his 'chute deployed during the launch. You can see it on the footage.