Company considers test mission a success despite the loss of the orbital launch vehicle about 30 seconds into the flight.

Just over a week after SpaceX's launchpad rocket failure ... travel as routine as airplane flight. He's also compared typical non-reusable rockets to using a 747 to fly across the country once ...

and likes flying fast. After reaching a speed of 114 miles an hour with an RC plane, he wanted to go further and break that record. To do so, he looked towards rocket power, and started a new build.