Rocketeers: Fabrizio Boer, CEO and chief designer of UK space startup SHIPinSPACE Ltd, posted a press release on the Commercial Spaceflight Europe group of LinkedIn, to the effect that his company had gained £5 million in seed funding to develop a novel design of 48-passenger suborbital spaceplane. SHIPinSPACE funded by £5m from Black Star Global. "SHIPinSPACE will be the largest Manned Space Vehicle ever launched by a factor of 7" — Fabrizio Boer (@f_boer) August 25, 2013 "SHIPinSPACE announces the kick-off of its 48-Passengers Suborbital Vehicle Programme thanks to a £5m seed funding investment obtained from Black Star Global, a UK company. "SHIPinSPACE will be the largest Manned Space Vehicle ever launched by a factor of seven which opens a new era for Space Tourism and the Space Industry as a whole," says Fabrizio Boer, CEO of SHIPinSPACE and designer of the decoupling structures technology the spaceship is based upon. According to Boer, this is the only type of technology which will be able to support such a high capacity manned space tourism programme." "Now is the time for private commercial space industry companies to develop ground-breaking and radically different technologies which combine design and launch with greater safety as well ...