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Famed DIY Rocketeer ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes Dies While Trying To Launch Another Homemade Rocket
The famed DIY rocketeer “Mad” Mike Hughes, who in 2018 successfully launched himself more than 1,800 feet into the sky in a homemade rocket, died on Saturday in a tragic accident. To the end though, it can be said that he passed doing what he loved to do: launching rockets.
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Rebuffed Flat Earth Rocketeer Says He Will Actually Launch Himself Into The Sky At 800km/h This Time
When last we heard of “Mad Mike” Hughes, the 61-year-old limo driver and stuntman who planned on launching a $US20,000 ($24,947) steam-fuelled rocket with “RESEARCH FLAT EARTH” painted on the side some 550m into the air at 800km/h, the gosh darn US government had intervened to tell him he couldn’t conduct any such launch on…