Steve Eves


Steve Eves formerly held the world record for the tallest and heaviest amateur rocket ever successfully launched. The rocket was tall and weighed. On Saturday April 25, 2009 Eves launched the 1/10 scale replica of the Saturn V rocket into the air, and successfully recovered it. The launch occurred on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay under supervision of the Maryland-Delaware Rocketry Association. The rocket was powered by a matrix of nine motors: eight 13,000Ns N-Class motors surrounding a central 77,000Ns P-Class motor, for a total of 181,000Ns.