Editing Modern flat Earth beliefs (section)

==== Mike Hughes ====
{{Main|Mike Hughes (daredevil)}}
[[Mike Hughes (daredevil)|Mike Hughes]], a daredevil/stuntman, planned to use a homebuilt crewed rocket to reach outer space.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/flat-earther-mad-mike-hughes-rocket-launch-man-blasts-off-a8272761.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220515/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/flat-earther-mad-mike-hughes-rocket-launch-man-blasts-off-a8272761.html |archive-date=15 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Flat-earther blasts off in homemade rocket in bid to reassure himself world is shaped 'like a Frisbee'|date=25 March 2018|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=8 December 2018}}</ref>
In a practice flight on 22 February 2020, the early deployment and separation of the return parachute allowed his rocket to fall unimpeded from an altitude of several hundred feet, killing him instantly.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sciencealert.com/infamous-flat-earth-daredevil-dies-in-crash-in-california|title=Infamous Daredevil 'Mad' Mike Hughes Has Died in Homemade Rocket Crash in California|website=ScienceAlert|date=23 February 2020 |language=en-gb|access-date=23 February 2020}}</ref>

After Hughes' death, his public relations representative Darren Shuster stated that Hughes "didn't believe in flat Earth" and that it was "a PR stunt" to get publicity,<ref>{{cite news |last=Steadman |first=Otillia |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/otilliasteadman/mad-mike-hughes-rocket-death-flat-earth |title=A Daredevil Flat Earther Died After Attempting To Launch Himself 5,000 Feet With A Homemade Rocket |date=24 February 2020 |work=BuzzFeed News |access-date=13 August 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ortiz |first=Aimee |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/23/us/mad-mike-hughes-dead.html |title=Mike Hughes, 64, D.I.Y. Daredevil, Is Killed in Rocket Crash |date=23 February 2020 |work=The New York Times |access-date=13 August 2021 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> while Michael Linn, who worked on the documentary ''Rocketman: Mad Mike's Mission to Prove the Flat-Earth'', said that Hughes' belief appeared genuine.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wigglesworth |first=Alex |url=https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-24/mad-mike-hughes-death-of-rocketman-ends-years-of-close-calls |title=Death of rocket man 'Mad Mike' Hughes ends years of close calls |date=24 February 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=13 August 2021 |language=en-US |issn=2165-1736}}</ref>