“There were about 50 spectators there,” Chapman said. Hughes’ third and final rocket launch, on February 22, 2020, ended in his death at the age of 64.įreelance journalist Justin Chapman is writing a book about Hughes, and was at the final launch in the desert outside Barstow, Calif. What made him famous was not just his homemade rockets, but why he wanted to build them: to shoot himself to the edge of space, to prove that the Earth is flat.
“Mad Mike” Hughes was a limousine driver turned stuntman.
It takes a certain kind of person to build a rocket and launch themself inside it. This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast.įind it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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