Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play (Warning: Some viewers may find the video disturbing.) Freelance journalist Justin Chapman tweeted a video of the crash. Several journalists, along with many of the rocketeer’s friends-including longtime collaborator Wade Stakes, according to The Washington Post-were on hand to witness the launch and sadly captured its swift failure. Hughes launched himself inside the steam-powered rocket in hopes that he might sail high enough into the atmosphere to prove that the Earth is flat. In 2018, Hughes strapped into and launched a similar rocket, reaching heights of nearly 1,900 feet before crash-landing in the Nevada desert.ĭaredevil "Mad" Mike Hughes died Saturday, February 22 after his homemade rocket crashed into the ground outside of Barstow, California.The rocketeer hoped to reach the Kármán line, the point at which Earth's atmosphere and outer space meet, about 62,000 feet above the surface of the globe."Mad" Mike Hughes, a daredevil and prominent supporter of the flat-Earth theory, died February 22 after his homemade rocket crashed into the ground.
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