May 242021
The British Interplanetary Society famously proposed manned missions to the moon both before and after World War II. These designs would *not* have worked, but that’s not the point. The “Collier’s” series space program vehicles would not have worked either, but they all served the purpose of showing that the physics supported the notion of manned space flight, that it *could* and *should* be done. And anythign that actually happens had to start somewhere.