The Rocket Racing League plans to pair off high-powered rocket planes in a high-speed, 3-D chase through the skies--think NASCAR meets Star Wars.

FORBES: The New Space Race

The effort, which is being put together by Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, and Granger Whitelaw, a venture capitalist and partner in two winning Indianapolis 500 racing teams, is developing rocket-powered aircraft with Mojave, Calif.

FORBES: The New Space Race

You know, kind of like when Sidney Bristo (Alias) is racing down an exhaust vent to 'disarm' a satellite gizmo on a random rocket just before the launch and therefore the utter distruction of the world but the rocket they show is the Saturn V used in the Apollo program.

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