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The D.R. Hero rocket was launched in August 1995. It was dedicated to stuntman Dar Robinson, a late friend of Ky Michaelson. The rocket was 18 feet (5 m) tall and 6 inches (152 mm) in diameter. It was anticipated to reach 100,000 feet (30,000 m). This rocket failed in a large CATO (catastrophe at take off) motor failure just above the ground. [1]
The Rocketboys (Team Michaelson/Anderson) Ky Michaelson, SFX artist and stuntman and amateur rocketeer, who in 2004 built the first amateur rocket that reached space at a zenith of 72 mi (116 km); Kurt Anderson, Rocketboys mechanical engineer, and Arctic Arrow rocket sled dragster pilot, wannabe astronaut; David, Rocketboys electronics engineer
Rojatt performed a 250 mph (400 km/h) wing-walking stunt on top of a DC-8 airliner flown by Clay Lacy over the Mojave Desert and Texas, both in the United States. In 1977, Rojatt contracted a hydrogen peroxide rocket-powered Harley-Davidson Sportster motorcycle to be built to jump 27 school buses at the Montreal Olympic Stadium during a Gloria Gaynor concert and beat Evel Knievel's record jump ...
In 1977 in the Mojave Desert, O'Neil piloted a hydrogen peroxide-powered rocket dragster built by Ky Michaelson with an average speed of 279.5 mph (449.8 km/h). Since the run was not repeated according to NHRA rules, it is not recognized as an official drag racing record. [20]
Ed Dwight, the first Black man to train as an astronaut, pictured in 2023. On Sunday, he will become the oldest person to go to space (Getty Images for National Geogra) In 1961, the US established ...
A 15-year-old boy is attacked by two great white sharks while surfing, but survives; the incident is accidentally caught on film by a bystander on the nearby beach / A four-month-old puppy loses its right legs after being hit by a vehicle, but grows up and manages to move around without them / Ky Michaelson, a man who had dropped out of high ...
The U.S. Air Force came to get it, deputies say.
Post time for the Kentucky Derby is set for 6:57 p.m. on Saturday, May 4. Society Man will enter the Kentucky Derby off a second-place finish in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial on April 6 at Aqueduct ...