Rocket Man Meets Burning Man

I took my kids out to Wayside for the Large Dangerous Rocket Ships Silver Anniversary festival. We were only there for about an hour and a half before they closed the course, but it was pretty much non-stop launching the entire time. There were rockets big and small and a few spectacular crashes. It was hands-down one of the coolest things I've seen around here in some time and I highly recommend you head out that way to watch some launches. The Globe-Republican has some more details: Super Bowl of rocketry.

I shot the video clip below with my digital camera, so the quality ain't all that great. If I recall correctly this particular rocket was about 20 ft. tall, weighed a couple hundred pounds and was built by a college student. The video clip doesn't do it justice.