From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Title: Conestoga I Launch
Article-I.D.: alice.908
Posted: Thu Sep  9 15:38:26 1982
Received: Fri Sep 10 06:00:29 1982

Space Services, Inc., made their first successful launch today,
as Conestoga I lifted off from Matagorda, Texas.  It was the
first time that a privately owned company has launch a rocket.
The surplus Minuteman solid motor, bought from NASA for $356K,
carried the rocket up to a suborbital flight where it released
its payload, 400 pounds of water; both fell into the Gulf of
Mexico later, just as planned.