"But it’s the price I pay for a life that’s not boring. Coyote, when he suddenly runs off a cliff," Hughes told the LA Times back in 2003. "Sometimes, I feel like the cartoon character Wile E. It was a grim end for the amateur rocketeer, but in retrospect, one with an eerie foreshadowing by Hughes himself. It was the second launch for Hughes in his mission to prove the Earth is flat by eventually taking photos of the lack of curvature of the planet from space. California resident Mike Hughes, 63, made international. Michael Mad Mike Hughes was killed in the crash of his homemade steam-powered rocket Saturday in California. "I don't believe in science," he told the Associated Press in 2017, as he was planning an earlier launch. A self-taught 'rocket scientist' is preparing to launch himself 5,000 feet into the air in a homemade, steam-powered rocket this Sunday. The launch comes after two failed attempts. Had he survived Saturday's launch, the 64-year-old Hughes' eventual plan had been to float his home-brewed rocket miles-high from the ground, using a balloon, then launching it to a height of 62 miles in order to film evidence that the Earth is actually flat - a common conspiracy theory online. Rocketeer flat-Earther 'Mad' Mike Hughes launched his Liberty One rocket on the third attempt Saturday (March 24, 2018) near Amboy, California. This weekend, Hughes finally launched himself in his homemade rocket - and crashed a minute later, dying in the wreck. Mad Mikeįor years, a daredevil named Mike "Mad Mike" Hughes has been trumpeting his plan to launch himself in a homemade rocket in order to prove that Earth is flat. "I don't believe in science," he told the Associated Press in 2017.
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