Friday, January 4, 2008
London, we have a problem.
It was first described thirty years before Armstrong’s famous line, and updated with the latest tech ten years after its first description, to the form you see it in below.
One of the members of the design team was this guy, who’s more famous for other things.
Identify the device, and name the chap.
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Show Answer
In 1939 (thirty years before the Apollo moon landing), the British Interplanetary Society set forth its designs for a Lunar Lander. With plans to have a 1000 tonne rocket, powered by 2490 rockets, this BIS moon ship was a mammoth of a device. The plans were updated in 1949 with the latest tech, to look similar to what you see in the first picture.