Homemade Rocket (Almost) Goes to Space

It only reached an altitude of 23 miles, but it definitely looks like space. For a prize of $10k, an amateur rocket builder launched a rocket 121,000 feet into the sky and has footage of the entire event. The video’s pretty amazing:

Here’s the initiative website with lots of pictures and tech details, and here’s a much longer video of the launch — worth a watch if you have time.