Published Date:
16 July 2009
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.
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 ...
The full article contains 990 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
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Last Updated:
15 July 2009 11:41 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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George Kerevan
