Though Hughes may drive limousines for a living, he says he has worked in NASCAR pit crews, and The Washington Post reports he “has been building rockets for years.” It was not his first time tinkering with a big hunk of metal, however. “Yeah, it was a scary moment,” he said in the interview, adding that he had to use a walker for several weeks after his landing. Hughes, 61, told a flat-Earth community Web show that the flight, which the AP said took him a quarter-mile across Arizona desert, ended when he pulled his parachutes - two of which he said were at least 20 years old at the time and one of which didn’t open. The plan, as stated, is to send himself 1,800 feet high in the air at a speed of 500 mph before finally pulling out his parachutes - which, one hopes, will not be the same ones he used for another launch in 2014. There’s no difference between science and science fiction.” But that’s not science, that’s just a formula.

“I know about aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and how things move through the air, about the certain size of rocket nozzles, and thrust. “I don’t believe in science,” Hughes added. (It goes without saying, but we’ll say this anyway: Do not try this at home - or anywhere.) And the whole thing is costing him just $20,000, according to the AP. “It’s the most interesting story in the world,” Hughes told The Associated Press of his jury-rigged quest to overturn more than two millennia of scientific knowledge. His name is “Mad” Mike Hughes, his steam-powered rocket is built of salvaged metals, his launch pad is repurposed from a used mobile home - and he is confident this will mark the first step toward proving the Earth is flat, after all. On Saturday, a limousine driver plans to launch himself on a mile-long flight over the Mojave Desert in a rocket of his own making.

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