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Here's the really small-time, low-budget side of space travel. It's a group of undergraduates at University of Southern California in LA that have been trying to launch a sounding rocket above the Karman line for years, with multiple failures.

Finally a success early this year, launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_conti...5j74uv427g

Even used their own homemade propellant.

Glimpses of the Earth's curvature captured, so take note Mad Mke Hughes. You don't have to kill yourself in a larger vessel. An anemic little thing like that can get the job done, that's perhaps smaller (thinner anyway) than the steam-powered rocket you're currently using. "I'm a daredevil, though. It's not just about Flat Earth, I'm a swashbuckling daredevil!"