A Brief History of Rockets and Space Travel When you think about our incredible journey to space do you cast your mind back to the ancient Greeks? If not, come with us on a journey through time as we explore the history of man's greatest achievement - breaking through the space barrier....
Later in 1862, an attempt was made by the Union Army's New York Rocket Battalion -- 160 men under the command of British-born Major Thomas W. Lion -- to use rockets against Confederates defending Richmond and Yorktown, Virginia. It wasn't an overwhelming success. When ignited, the rocke...
Looking at the previous year (1998) on usenet, there is NO mention of chemtrails. The word “contrail” crops up 324 times, mostly in reference to meteors and rockets. There are a few references to the affect of contrails on climate change. But NOTHING about deliberate contrail creation, o...
Even the timing of the critical 14 seconds for the retro rockets to fire was contentious. Official records stated that Commander John Swigert used his Speedmaster to do the timing, but in James Dowling and Jeff Hess’s bookThe Best of Time Rolex Wristwatches: An Unauthorized History, the au...