Insane Homemade Rocket Launch

Stunning footage of a sonic boom spreading across the sky during the launch of the Atlas V rocket in Florida.

This is what happens when a third world country tries launching a mortar rocket. Didn't get the kind of distance they predicted.

A scale model of the Star Wars X-Wing Fighter gets shot down shortly after launch in southern California. Where was Hans Solo?!?

Champagne Rocket Launch check this

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a Foton M-1 satellite has a total failure during launch and collides into the Earth with a large explosion. www.nasaspaceflight.com

Incredible footage from a recent NASA space shuttle launch which pretty much turned night into day!

John Carmack created the rocket named Qu8k and sent it into the atmosphere with an onboard camera.

The Mythbusters head to New Mexico and launch a rocket into a car at 650mph!

Rocket launching in the early days was, quit literally, a "hit-or-miss" affair. This 10 minute music video shows some of our early rocket failure, and a few successful launches, set to the music of Pomp And Circumstance. Thanks to www.spacearium.com

A citizen in Homs, Syria manages to capture this incredible footage of a rocket explosion shot off by government troops in an effort aimed at crushing rebel forces.

The parachutes fail for this RC rocket after being launched and it ends up crashing straight into the crowd!

Check out this Guiness approved, World Record Blob Launch in Switzerland! The guy gets tosses 17 meters into the air! That actually looks like a lot of fun.

This blonde chick gives Judge Judy a little lesson on rocket science...

I really don't think it gets any cooler than this! Check out the power behind this custom homemade tank.

At LDRS-18 (Large and Dangerous Rocket Ships) in Argonia, Kansas in 1999. This was the annual national rocket launch for the Tripoli Rocketry Association. The largest amateur rocket project was a 1/3 scale model of the Mercury Redstone 3 rocket that Alan Shepard launched in to become America's first man in space in 1961. The launch ignition button was pushed by Alan Shepard's daughter. Very soon thereafter she was glad her dad wasn't on the rocket. At ignition, the solid propellant motor blew through its casing, ruptured and exploded. The explosion destroyed the rocket which snagged itself in its launch tower. The rocket was totally demolished but the Mercury capsule was salvaged for a future project. Always prepare your rocket motors carefully because sometimes they can explode and blow up your rocket!