Derek Deville, built a 8" diameter, ~14 foot rocket, that went 121,000 feet (~23 miles) up into space to capture Carmack's $5k "100kft Micro Prize".
Top speed of the rocket was 3,200ft/s (2,181 mph) and it's all on video:
(BTW, it landed only 3 miles from the launch site.) More on this at HuffPo and Gizmo.
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