In this Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, photograph, daredevil/limousine driver Mad Mike Hughes is shown with with his steam-powered rocket Photo by HO courtesy of Mad Mike Hughes via AP ...

The rocket's apogee was around 470,000 feet (143,300 m) above Earth's surface, which is "further into space than any non-governmental and non-commercial group has ever flown before," USC ...

Mike Hughes, a 61-year-old limousine driver, activated the parachute on his homemade rocket after propelling himself to 1,875ft in the air above the Mohave Desert on Saturday afternoon.

However, a second computer said the rocket only made about 1,200 metres off the ground — that's 4,000 feet. The team will go through their data to try and determine why the results were ...