Up, up and away

Published: 7:47PM Monday November 30, 2009 Source: Close Up

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New Zealand joined the space race on Monday afternoon, when the Atea-one rocket blasted off from Great Mercury Island.

Those behind the launch say its the first step towards providing space vehicles with payload capability for private industry to carry out vital scientific research hundreds of kilometres above us.

Michael Holland meets the very clever young cookies.

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