The Week contest: Rocket man

Last week's question: A California man is fighting the government for the right to fire himself 1,800 feet above the Mojave Desert in a homemade rocket, so he can take a photo of the Earth and prove that the planet is flat. If Hollywood were to make a film about this Flat Earther's madcap project, what would it be called?
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THE WINNER: "One Cuckoo Flew over the West"
John Fessler, Chino Hills, Calif.
SECOND PLACE: "The Wrong Stuff"
Neil Ludlam, Sky Valley, Calif.
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THIRD PLACE: "High Loon"
Joel Conarroe, New York City
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"The Flat and the Furious"
Jeff Holmes, St. Paul, Minn.
"One Flew From the Cuckoo's Nest"
Ray Crary, Lodi, Wis.
"2017: A Space-Case Odyssey"
Justin Klineman, Bodega Bay, Calif.
"Sphere and Loathing in California"
Ed Tedrow, Slidell, La.
"It's a Flat, Flat, Flat, Flat World"
Steven Bayne, Northfield, Minn.
"Planespotting"
Michael Schreyach, San Antonio, Texas
"Event Horizontal"
Jim Kulakoski, Port Orange, Fla.
"Lost Marbles in Space"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vt.
"DIY Hard"
Susie Becker, San Rafael, Calif.
"The Not-So-Right Stuff"
Chris Keneston, Selkirk, N.Y.
"How High The Loon"
Eugene Hagin, Princeton, N.J.
"Terrain-spotting"
Bruce Carlson, Alexandria, Va.
"The Man Who Fell to Earth"
Kathleen Blanchard, Palo Alto, Calif.
"Flat Out Crazy"
Margaret Peterson, Des Moines, Iowa
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