Manderup Parsberg Manderup Parsberg Manderup Parsberg (December 24, 1546 - November 11, 1625) was a Danish nobleman and politician who was member of the Royal Privy Council to King Christian IV of Denmark. As a student at the University of Rostock he participated in a duel against his third cousin Tycho Brahe in which he cut off most of his nose. The two later became good friends, and he married Tycho's distant cousin Anne Pedersdatter Brahe (1578-1633). Parsberg was lord to Hagesholm. When, in a funeral oration for Brahe, an allusion was made to their unfortunate duel, Parsberg protested and sought redress
HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe successful tests of the solid fuel epoxy and the liquid oxidizer nitrous oxide, which was used in their hybrid rocket HATV ("Hybrid Atmospheric Test Vehicle"). The HATV rocket was only 1/3 size of the final rocket, HEAT. This HEAT rocket ("Hybrid Exo Atmospheric Transporter") with liquid oxygen and polyurethane, would carry the MSC ("the micro-spacecraft") above the 100 km boundary and into space. The MSC was named after Tycho Brahe, and the combination was known as the HEAT-1X TYCHO BRAHE. Gravity would then pull the MSC back to the atmosphere, where the MSC landed on water using parachutes. The first