"It was always his dream to do this launch & Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey," said the channel, which filmed the launch for a new series called "Homemade Astronauts."ĭressed in a red-and-black space suit and posing in front of the rocket, Hughes had announced plans for the launch on the Discovery Channel. A 2017 photo shows daredevil Mad Mike Hughes with his steam-powered rocket constructed out of salvage parts.
He was an amateur rocket builder on a quest to prove that the Earth is flat. The daredevil known as Mad Mike Hughes died in a rocket crash in 2020. Images of the launch, carried out in the desert in front of a crowd of horrified witnesses, circulated on social media Sunday.Ī parachute can be seen tearing away from the rocket moments after the launch, as the spacecraft loops downward and crashes several hundred meters from the launch site near Barstow, 110 miles (180 kilometers) northeast of Los Angeles. The life and death of daredevil ‘Mad Mike’ Hughes. But don't confuse it with that flat Earth thing. "He did have some governmental conspiracy theories. "I don't think he believed it," Shuster said. His spokesman Darren Shuster told the Los Angeles Times, however, that the flat Earth claim was merely to drum up publicity for the launch. His goal, he told the local press, was to ascend more than 1,500 meters (nearly one mile) to prove that the Earth is not round but shaped like a Frisbee.
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