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A previous attempt to reach the 5,000-foot mark had been thwarted due to a faulty heater purchased on Craigslist, according to.

The launches had each been fraught with issues it was canceled and rescheduled due to weather, disputes with the Bureau of Land Management, and technical challenges. Hughes had worked with general contractor Waldo Stakes to build the steam-powered rockets. But "this flat Earth has nothing to do with the steam rocket launches," he added.

"I believe the Earth is flat," Hughes told. In August 2019, he told his launch was inspired by President Trump and walked back his earlier statement to AP that his plans were motivated by a desire to prove flat Earth theories. In a July 2019 appearance on Fox Business, Hughes identified himself as a "flat Earth believer" and said that the sun could not be 93 million miles from Earth - while also joking about his cats and his former career dream of being a road manager for the Spice Girls. Flat Earth allowed us to get so much publicity that we kept going! I know he didn’t believe in flat Earth and it was a shtick." "He was a true daredevil decades before the latest round of rocket missions. Period," Darren Shuster told BuzzFeed News. On Saturday, a public relations representative disputed Hughes' flat Earth beliefs, telling BuzzFeed News that the argument had helped him raise money but that he didn't actually believe it.

"Do I believe the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee? I believe it is,” he said. In 2018, Hughes told the AP he wanted to do the launch because he believed the Earth was flat. Hughes was a larger-than-life figure who talked about flat Earth and Moon landing conspiracies as he attempted to draw attention to his rocket stunts.

Hughes - who holds the Guinness World Record for longest limousine ramp jump for a 103-foot jump in a stretch Lincoln Town Car in 2002 - had been working toward an attempt to reach the spot where the Earth's atmosphere meets outer space, about 62 miles above the Earth's surface.įor a previous launch in 2018, he had reached about 1,900 feet. The Science Channel, which had been chronicling Hughes's attempt for a show called Homemade Astronauts, confirmed his death, saying, "It was always his dream to do this launch & Science Channel was there to chronicle his journey." “Everyone was stunned when he crashed and didn't know what to do.” “When the rocket was nosediving and he didn't release the three other parachutes he had in the rocket, lots of people screamed out and started wailing,” Chapman told BuzzFeed News in an email.