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Published online 22 September 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060918-11

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Shooting for space on a shoestring

Just how cheap can rockets get?

Imagine you have an important experiment you're just itching to launch into space, but you've only a few hundred in the bank. Who you gonna call? Well you could try a group of undergraduates at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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