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So, Bob Truax of Sea Dragon fame worked with Evel Knievel for a time. He built Knievel's rocket-powered "Skycycle" and was even building a sub-orbital rocket out of parts obtained from scrapyards that would have made Knievel the first private person to reach space. Knievel pulled out of the project though, and it folded for lack of money. What if Knievel didn't pull out though? And what if the rocket worked? What happens if a backyard rocket manages to reach space and return its pilot to the ground by the early '80s?