A 1,100-pound piece of rocket debris plummeted to the Earth this week and smashed into a village in Kenya, officials in that country said on New Year's Day.A metallic ring measuring about 8 feet "fell from the skies" and landed in Mukuku Village in Makueni County on Monday, the Kenya Space Agency sa...
You don’t need billions of dollar to make a rocket, you need them to make them work reliably and safely. If all you want to do is to move in the general direction of space, the requirements are much lower.
Source: Played KSP.