Made It Way Up

First published in <i><a href=http://www.bewilderingstories.com>Bewildering Stories</a></i><br><br>After years delivering nothing but seemingly pointless research, and the odd probe to one of our sister planets, NASA has been dissolved. The government’s monies and attentions have turned to promoting its new reality show, <i>All The President’s Daughters</i>, and figuring out how to safely invade Canada. But, high in the wooded mountains of Washington state, two men are working feverishly to build their own rockets, to reclaim for humanity the lost estate of outer space.