Finally, a couple of months ago, he made good. Further attempts were scrubbed-mechanical problems, logistical hurdles, hassles from the U.S. He planned to try again in 2016, but his Kickstarter campaign, which aimed to raise a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, netted just two supporters and three hundred and ten dollars.
In 2014, he allegedly flew thirteen hundred and seventy-four feet in a garage-built rocket and was injured when it crashed. In 2002, Hughes set a Guinness World Record for the longest ramp jump-a hundred and three feet-in a limo, a stretch Lincoln Town Car. He’d been trying for years, in one way or another. On the last Sunday afternoon in March, Mike Hughes, a sixty-two-year-old limousine driver from Apple Valley, California, successfully launched himself above the Mojave Desert in a homemade steam-powered rocket.
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