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Robert Truax was an American engineer who helped develop a number of ballistic missiles for the navy and worked on Evel Knievel's Rocket for his snake river canyon jump. In the 80s Truax was working on building a rocket in his back yard from surplus parts. The Navy ended up buying it at 80% complete to use it for some kind of testing. What would happen if Truax succeeded and private space flight became a thing in the late 80s early 90s rather then mid 2000s. What might it look like?