Everybody's Working for the Weekend - Joe Latrell and Jim Stewart apply a final piece of rocket skin on Launch Day as Tracey Craft prepares the cargo container.

A Few Good Men - The Launch Team raises Launch Craft 1 into position April 16th. The Team was invited to use the Pawnee Grasslands site as a demo for Northern Colorado Rocketry's "Mile High Mayhem," a High-Powered Rocket experimental launch day.

The Countdown continues - LC-1 is on the pad, preparing for lift off. The avionics bay is about to be closed and the electronics turned on.

A lot of people are needed for an endeavor like this; Left to Right in the back: Laura Latrell, Steve Adams, T'Chris Gardner, Joe Latrell, Sam Schaffer, and Biff Bassett. Front row: Zack Latrell, Jim Stewart, Jim Amos, Tracey Craft, James Russell, and John Jamieson.

LiftOff!! - And LC-1 Clears the Tower... The craft reached an altitude of over 8,000 ft. with a flight time of 24 seconds. Though the nosecone collapsed 500 feet into the flight, the craft flew straight and true.

"Missed it by that much" - The Recovery Team collects LC-1 after the parachutes fail to deploy. Interestingly, the "front impact crumple zones" work great and the crash site only suffered a one inch divit in the ground. The payload container survived the crash.