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A group of Danes wants to get to space so badly they've decided to build their own rocket to get there. To make sure their spacecraft is "safe" the builders plan to test their human space launch vehicle as early as this week from the Baltic Sea.

"This project might be daring or extreme but we're never going to be foolish. We're not going to say something like, 'This might work, let's try it,' but obviously we set our own standards," said von Bengtson, 36, an architect who specializes in human spacecraft design. "We're not going to kill ourselves," he told Discovery News.

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