Our thoughts & prayers go out to his family & friends during this difficult time. “Michael ‘Mad Mike’ Hughes tragically passed away today during an attempt to launch his homemade rocket. The Science Channel, which has scheduled the series “Homemade Astronauts” to premiere this year, and TMZ reported that Hughes, 64, was aboard the rocket and perished in the accident.Ī video posted on Twitter shows a parachute separating from the rocket just after launch and then moments later, the rocket falling from hundreds of feet nose-down. 22, when the homemade steam-powered vessel he manned as part of a television series crashed in the San Bernardino County desert near Barstow, reports said. Medical aid was staged for the launch and was on scene immediately.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuĭaredevil rocket builder “Mad” Mike Hughes of Apple Valley died Saturday, Feb. In this Wednesday, November 15, 2017, photograph, daredevil/limousine driver Mad Mike Hughes is shown with with his steam-powered rocket constructed out of salvage parts on a five-acre property that he leases in Apple Valley, California.Īlthough police did not positively identify Hughes, San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Public Information Officer Cindy Bachman said Saturday in a statement, "A man was pronounced deceased after the rocket crashed in the open desert during a rocket launch event. It was always his dream to do this launch, and Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey," Science Channel said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mike Hughes' family and friends during this difficult time. This particular launch was only supposed to take Hughes 5,000 feet in the air, according to Discovery. Saturday's rocket launch was to be featured on the Science Channel, which was chronicling Hughes' attempts to launch himself high enough in a homemade rocket to take pictures of the curvature - or lack thereof as far as Hughes was concerned - of the Earth. Hughes, 64, wanted to prove the Flat Earth theory by taking photographs of the Earth from a homemade rocket. "Mad Mike" dies from his homemade rocket 01:27ĭaredevil and Flat Earth theorist Michael "Mad Mike" Hughes died Saturday in a rocket crash.
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