Summary
We used to aim for the stars but now we're lying in the gutter, so what happened to engineering?
WHO was the first man on the Moon? You may have been told it was Neil Armstrong but you'd be wrong. True, Neil got there on 20 July, 1969, 40 years ago this Saturday. But the Brits got there long before that.See the full content of this document
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Rekindle Scientific Romance for a Brighter Future
The first two - Messrs Cavor and Bedford - arrived in 1901, courtesy of HG Wells's novel, The First Men in the Moon. In Tsarist Russia, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was busy being the first to predict that rockets would be the means to get into space, but Cavor used a different technology...
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