Nystrom, Lynn A.2013-05-062013-05-062004-04-30http://hdl.handle.net/10919/20794When Pat Artis was a young boy, he built a rocket, launched it, and promptly blew a hole in the family's truck window. His unlikely cohort in the crime - his father - shielded him by telling Pat's mother that a rock hit the vehicle. Pat continued tinkering with rockets and eventually won a research and development award from the National Association of Rocketry. He was still a teenager.text/htmlIn CopyrightPress releaseVirginia Tech. University Relations