I'm not sure of why the reference to ICBM's...
After Sept/11/2001, it will be near
impossible for a civilian, an amateur
to get hold of even an inert, disarmed ICBM, without a thorough background check from the FBI, CIA, BATF, etc...

Ray? Commendable as your ideas are, It's not very realistic to expect the FAA and other government agencies to give 'amateurs' in the field of rocketry, or even working on an X-Prize
entry, any easy time, or quick paper work in this new "age of terror".
I mean the same rocket technology going into some of the X-Prize hardware are not much different from
the technolocal/engineering parameters
for the V2 rocket or SCUD missile.

Jacob