The KART team had just formed, with a team of 5 people building and launching rockets with the hope of reaching space one day. They rented the KSC's launchpad for their experiments, considering that the government had taken control on the KSC two years before. Since then, there had been no new launches or space activity since then. The KSC had plenty of spare parts left over, so they let the KART use the launchpad and some other guidance equipment.  The first rocket was named the "Disc