The flight of a 15.5 foot tall, 9 inch diameter unreinforced rocket made from QuikTube cardboard concrete pillar forms. The project was a collaboration between Troy Monroe Stacey of Defy Gravity and Wayne Mrazek of NowHybrids. DG supplied the rocket and NH supplied the HyperTek M1000 hybrid rocket motor. It flew approximately 1 mile high at a launch hosted by Rocketry Organization of California at Lucerne Dry Lake in California on Saturday, April 13, 2002. Top half of rocket recovered successfully, bottom half landed hard and sustained moderate damage due to a tangled main chute. california, dead, hybrid, hypertek, lucerne, m1000, monroe, mrazek, organization, quick, quik, roc, rocket, stacey, troy, wayne