Amateur Rocketeers Win Trip To X Prize Cup

In what seems like a plot stolen from the recent movie "The Astronaut Farmer," three Colorado men built a 21' foot rocket in a garage, and managed to launch it to a height of over 11,000 feet -- a feat that earned them an all-expense paid trip to the 2007 Wirefly X Prize Cup.

It's the biggest amateur rocket ever launched in the state of Colorado, and is now part of a museum display at Denver International Airport.

"Most rockets like this just go back in the garage," Hoag said. "For something we built in a garage to end up in the Denver Museum is really cool."

X Prize representatives searching for projects to sponsor and support tracked down the three men, and invited them to attend this fall's exposition in Las Cruces, NM.