When I was much younger, I saw other kids into model rocketry playing with their solid fuel “motors” that would get a few hundred, maybe a thousand feet. I kept wondering why they weren’t trying to build a liquid-fueled multi-stage that would put something into orbit.
These days, the gestapo would be all over you if you tried to buy the components for the fuel, let alone try to actually launch an orbital vehicle. Seems the gummint now owns space as well as the skies above.
Never thought of using a hair dryer in a rocket engine before. I don’t suppose the other way around would be a good idea.
The future of space and manned space exploration does not lie in the USA ... any longer. We’re into diversity and other navel sucking racist projects in a unilateral race to the bottom, with the popular social media and educational institutions leading the way.
Was it aboard a homemade rocket? If not, then I'm not too impressed.
/sarc
Reminds me of a story a fellow amateur radio operator told me where he loaned his cousin a ham radio to outfit a spacecraft he was building that would take him to Mars. This was the 1950’s or 1960’s, he hasn’t heard from him since so who knows? B-)