'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.

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. 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. 23 February 2020 An earlier flight, 2018, in which 'Mad' Mike Hughes sought to prove his theory that the Earth was flat A US daredevil pilot has been killed during an attempted launch of a. His spokesman Darren Shuster told the Los Angeles Times, however, that the flat Earth claim was merely to drum up publicity for the launch. Its hosted by Daniel Shenton and Michael Wilmore.

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. This is the Flat Earth Society Podcast, a place or free thinkers to discuss alternative science and new or unusual ways of viewing the world.

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