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According to Southern California Public Radio,
"Mad" Mike Hughes, limousine driver and self-proclaimed flat-Earther, announced that he had to delay his plan to launch himself 1,800 feet high in a rocket of his own making. The launch, which he has billed as a crucial first step toward ultimately photographing our disc-world from space, had been scheduled for Saturday — before the Bureau of Land Management got wind of the plan and barred him from using public land in Amboy, Calif.
Also, the rocket launcher he had built out of a used motor home "broke down in the driveway" on Wednesday, according to Hughes. He said in a YouTube announcement that they'd eventually gotten the launcher fixed — but the small matter of federal permission proved a more serious stumbling block (for now).
Related: Flat Earther Plans Manned Steam-Powered Rocket Launch.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 28 2017, @01:40PM
What isn't apparent from the horrible article headline is that the Federal Government denied him permission because he never officially asked for it. Someone from the Bureau of Land Management heard on the radio that this guy was planning to launch from one of their managed sites, and that was the first they heard of it; they actually reached out to him when they heard the story. All he needed to do was apply for a permit, which he never did. Saying he got some verbal permission from someone a year ago doesn't mean shit.