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.
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