He was the subject of a documentary called Rocketman, and he was taking part in an upcoming Science Channel show called Homemade Astronauts. Hughes’s exploits included a Guinness World Record for longest limo jump in 2002, a run for governor of California in 2018, and hosting a Flat Earth conference in Vegas in 2019. “Maybe inspires the guy who’s really going to change the world, or the group of people.” “At one time in this country, we thought anything was possible, but we don’t believe we can do anything anymore,” Hughes told me. His talk at the Adventurers’ Club, a men’s organization with exotic animal busts and shrunken heads and mastodon tusks on the walls, was part self-promotion and part of his $2.8 million crowdfunding effort for the rockoon launch. Hughes was also building a “rockoon”-part rocket, part balloon-to send himself 62.8 miles up to the edge of space, known as the Kármán Line, to “see what shape this planet is” for himself this October. The then-62-year-old flat-earther had already launched himself nearly 2,000 feet into the sky twice in steam-powered rockets that he’d built himself-and he was planning to do it again. He was speaking at the Adventurers’ Club of Los Angeles. I first encountered “Mad” Mike Hughes, a self-taught rocketeer, about a year before his death.
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