"Mad" Mike Hughes' homemade rocket takes to the skies above Amboy, Calif., on Saturday.
His parachutes guided him groundward to safety (mostly), and once he landed, he celebrated his achievement with a paramedic and his backboard. Medical professionals pull Hughes' stretcher aboard an ambulance after his rough landing left him in less than ideal condition. For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript.
Trust me, Mike… there’s no edge. “Mad” Mike Hughes, the rocket man who believes the Earth is flat, propelled himself about 1,875 feet into the air Saturday before a hard landing in the Mojave Desert. The self-taught rocket scientist who believes the Earth is flat propelled himself about 1,875 feet into the air before a hard landing in the Mojave Desert left him injured.All told, the journey took around a minute. I manned up and did it."
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BARSTOW, Calif. — A California man who said he wanted to fly to the edge of outer space to see if the world is round has died after his home-built rocket blasted off into the desert sky and plunged back to earth.“Mad" Mike Hughes was killed on Saturday afternoon after his rocket crashed on private property near Barstow, Calif.Waldo Stakes, a colleague who was at the rocket launch, said Hughes, 64, was killed.The Science Channel said on Twitter it had been chronicling Hughes' journey and that “thoughts & prayers go out to his family & friends during this difficult time.”“It was always his dream to do this launch,” the Twitter message said.Hughes also was a limousine driver, who held the Guinness world record for “longest limousine ramp jump,” for jumping 103 feet in a Lincoln Town Car stretch limousine, at a speedway in 2002.A video on TMZ.com showed the rocket taking off, with what appears to be a parachute tearing off during the launch.
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“Mad” Mike Hughes, the rocket man who believes the Earth is flat, propelled himself about 1,875 feet into the air Saturday before a hard landing in the Mojave Desert. Onlookers called out congratulations as Hughes was checked for serious injuries.The launch marks Hughes' second successful flight, after he "Do I believe the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee? "Mad" Mike Hughes is going to launch himself over the ghost town Amboy, in the Mojave Desert, this Saturday and televise it on his YouTube channel. "Mad" Mike Hughes' homemade rocket takes to the skies above Amboy, Calif., on Saturday. Well-known daredevil "Mad Mike" Hughes reportedly died after a homemade rocket crashed. "He said in a video that his goal was to eventually fly to the edge of outer space to determine for himself whether the world is round.“I don't want to take anyone else's word for it,” he said in the video, posted on the BBC News website.
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