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Posted: Sunday, 07 September 2008 2:39PM

Rocket Experiment "Goes Up" In Smoke

A retired NASA engineer looking to develop an inexpensive way for people to travel to space might have to go back to the drawing board.  Jim Akkerman was working on a spacecraft his firm is developing when his rocket fuel exploded near Houston.      No one was injured and no property was damaged in the explosion. Hitchcock police say it's just an experiment that ``went bad.''

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