Only a Paper Moon: The British Interplanetary Society's Lunar Spaceship

How a group of Englishmen from the 1930s envisioned a possible manned moon landing. The British Interplanetary Society Technical Committee developed the world's first detailed study of a crewed lunar mission. A gumdrop-shaped lunar lander would sit atop a five-stage solid fueled rocket and carry a crew of 3 on a 14-day trip to the lunar surface and back. After World War II, the BIS proposed a man-rated V-2 rocket and design a lunar spacesuit. —————————— Further reading/watching: • my BIS lunar ship web article: https://www.spaceflighthistories.com/... • CBS Cronkite and Clarke interview:    • CBS News - Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. C...   • Lunar spacesuit photos: https://www.spacecentre.co.uk/collect... • Public Domain Image Archive: https://pdimagearchive.org/ • San Diego Air and Space Museum Archies: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmar... Donate @ https://ko-fi.com/spaceflighthistories Follow me on Instagram @ spaceflighthistories —————————— HAL 9000 panel by Tom Cowap via Wikipedia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Gymnopedie No 1 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Subtitles are automatically generated by YouTube and may have slight inaccuracies. No generative AI was used in the making of this video.