The Bamboo Rocket Festival takes place in Thailand every year. People consider building rockets to be a hobby there. For all I know, there are people building these things here in the US too. In fact, I'm 100% positive there are people doing this here...
When Kairee Goodin took a trip out to the Mojave Desert back in June 2010, to attend an amateur rocket festival, she expected it to be hot – but what she didn’t expect is a high powered rocket to leave her entire backside looking like something from the Elephant Man.