I like to do extraordinary things that no one else can do, and no one in the history of mankind has designed, built and launched himself in his own rocket. “It’s scary as hell, but none of us are getting out of this world alive. “If you’re not scared to death, you’re an idiot,” Hughes said. trying to raise funds to prove the Earth is flat

He will travel about a mile at a speed of roughly 800 km/h. His first test of the rocket will also be the launch date - Saturday, when he straps into his homemade contraption and attempts to hurtle over the ghost town of Amboy, California. His project has cost him $20,000, which includes Rust-Oleum paint to fancy it up and a motor home he bought on Craigslist that he converted into a ramp. Hughes is a 61-year-old limo driver who’s spent the last few years building a steam-powered rocket out of salvage parts in his garage. Leave enough food for his four cats - just in case anything happens. The countdown to launch creeps closer and there’s still plenty for self-taught rocket scientist “Mad” Mike Hughes to do: Last-second modifications to his vessel.

Flat earther rocket