Dreams of Space: Before Apollo (Moon Flight Atlas)

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apollo nasa Introduction In books and movies our early ideas about how humans could travel in space included being shot to the Moon in a large cannon shell In real life Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky began developing ideas on how rockets could be launched into space in the late 1800s while from 1926 to 1941 American scientist Robert Goddard built a series of successful rockets Later German scientist Wernher von Braun spearheaded much of the U S space effort Here you can find out how the work of these and other space pioneers paved the way for the Apollo Moon landings 2