As the crowd cheered, the second, bigger chute appeared right on schedule, indicating that this attempt over the canyon would end well. Just as it appeared to be disappearing came the first of three chutes that would land Braun safely on the other side. The hundreds of fans gathered on each side of the canyon watched with abated breath as the rocket spiraled 2200-feet above the launch site. Eddie Braun (Photo Credit Weiward via Facebook) Powered by over 6,000 pounds per square inch of steam pressure generated by a giant tank filled with water superheated to over 450☌, the rocket, dubbed “Evel Spirit,' accelerated to speeds of over 400 mph almost instantly.

While Knievel emerged relatively unscathed from the incident, he never got a chance to attempt the stunt again.Ĥ2 years later, on September 16, Hollywood stuntman Eddie Braun paid homage to the late Knievel by crossing the quarter-mile width of the 500-feet deep Canyon in a rocket almost identical to the one used in 1974. Unfortunately, a parachute deployed prematurely and caused the rocket and its occupant to drift to the canyon’s bottom. In 1974, American stuntman Evel Knievel attempted to cross Idaho’s Snake River Canyon aboard a steam-powered rocket. Evel Knievel attempts crossing Snake River Canyon in 1974 (Photo Credit: Illona Gaynor CC V 2.0

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