Hermann Ganswindt
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Ganswindt was perhaps the earliest person to propose a feasible means of spaceflight in print, but he was largely forgotten until the 1920s.
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An eccentric inventor, Ganswindt in 1891 proposed a space vehicle propelled by exploding charges. He understood Newton’s third law but did not equate his propulsion system with a rocket. He was perhaps the earliest person to propose a feasible means of spaceflight in print, but he was largely forgotten until German rocket enthusiasts rediscovered him in the 1920s.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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83-2819
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