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A California man who planned to launch himself 1,800 feet high Saturday in a homemade scrap-metal rocket — in an effort to prove that Earth is flat — said he is postponing the experiment after he couldn't get permission from a federal agency to conduct it on public land. Instead, Mike Hughes said the launch will take place sometime next week on private property, albeit still in Amboy, Calif., an unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert along historic Route 66.
Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program. Hughes’s ultimate goal is a subsequent launch that puts him miles above Earth, where the 61-year-old limousine driver hopes to photograph proof that it's a disk we all live on. “It’ll shut the door on this ball Earth,” Hughes said in a flight fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group.
Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program. Hughes’s ultimate goal is a subsequent launch that puts him miles above Earth, where the 61-year-old limousine driver hopes to photograph proof that it's a disk we all live on. “It’ll shut the door on this ball Earth,” Hughes said in a flight fundraising interview with a flat-Earth group.