On September 8th, 1974, famous daredevil Evel Knievel climbed into a steam-powered rocket and attempted to blast across Idaho’s Snake River Canyon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p1khN1xyBw
I should’ve sued Evel Knievel for wrecking my bicycle a dozen times or more. I jumped everything until Becoming a pilot ;).
I really believed 50 years after that attempt rockets would be taking me to the moon station on a schedule.