Michael Hughes – inventor, daredevil, and a self-proclaimed madman, has taken one final leap into the sky in a self-constructed steam-powered rocket as part of a Science Channel series he was to star in. The Flat Earth Society said in a statement, “Today, the Flat Earth movement has lost a dear friend. I’m not gonna take anyone else’s word for it, I’m gonna build my own rocket right here and see it with my own eyes, what shape this world we live on,” Hughes said in a teaser trailer for the documentary Rocketman: Mad Mike’s Mission to Prove the Earth Is Flat. “I believe in the geocentric Flat Earth model. Hughes, however, was also well-known in the Flat Earth community, believing the Earth was frisbee-shaped and, with his steam-powered rockets, hoped to prove the theory. The BBC added that, as a daredevil, Hughes set a Guinness World Record in 2002 for the longest limousine jump, a 103-foot jump with a Lincoln Town Car stretch limo by day, Hughes was a limo driver. ![]() reported that Hughes’ self-financed mission was for the rocket to reach an altitude of 5,000 feet in a similar experiment in March 2018, Hughes’ rocket approached 1,900 feet before he deployed his parachute. Mad Mike Hughes just launched himself in a self-made steam-powered rocket and crash landed.
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