We just felt like someday what we were doing was going to help the United States toe be number one in space.

I was just completely fascinated and was doing my best to get rockets as high as I possibly could.

Michael was get a rocket into the stratosphere, if I could.

I was inspired by Sputnik to build my own rockets s O that ended up with some chemistry experiments in the basement that went wrong, E I exploded this rocket mixture and I burned my eyebrows off and my mother was horrified.

They really weren't rockets.

They were pipe bombs with fins.

It's amazing.

I didn't kill myself.

They were very, very dangerous.