Skeptic of world being round dies in California rocket crash
(World News Science)

BARSTOW, Calif. (AP) - A California man who said he wanted to fly to the edge of outer space to see if the world is round has died after his home-built rocket blasted off into the desert sky and plunged back to earth. `Mad” Mike Hughes was killed on Saturday afternoon after his rocket crashed on private property near Barstow, California. Waldo Stakes, a colleague who was at the...