Rocket Man Builds Backyard Spaceship
Submitted By: BizarreNews
Article Date: 05/18/2001
URL: http://www.goofball.com/news/20010518_bizarre
BEND, Ore - 44-year-old Brian Walker never finished school. In fact, he dropped out after two semesters of engineering college. But this fact is not keeping him from building a rocket in his back yard. The self-made millionaire has already invested $250,000 in his project. The thrust will be produced by a combination of steam and hydrogen peroxide engines. If all goes as planned his rocket will take him up to 32 miles, where he will experience several moments of weightlessness and then begin to fall back toward Earth. My whole mission is to show what a person can do on his own, says Walker. If I die, I die. I´d rather die trying this than spend the next 40 years bitter that I never made the attempt.