“A guy who builds his own rocket in his garage, about to jump a mile is pretty cool,” Hughes said. He will be tinkering with his rocket right up to takeoff. This rocket will take Hughes about 68 miles up.įirst things first - this jump over a ghost town. He and Stakes have already brainstormed on a “Rockoon,” which is a rocket that, rather than being immediately ignited while on the ground, is carried into the atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and lit. His future plans include an excursion into space. He said he’s been in contact with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Bureau of Land Management.įollowing his jump, he said he’s going to announce his plans to leap into the race for governor of California. They’re discouraging fans - safety issues - but it will be televised on his YouTube channel. He plans to go about a mile - reaching an altitude of about 1,800 feet - before pulling two parachutes. On the morning of the launch, Hughes will heat about 70 gallons of water in a stainless steel tank and then blast off between 2 p.m. 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.
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