We’ll never know when the dream of spaceflight first appeared in human consciousness, or to whom it first appeared. Perhaps it was in the sun-baked plains of Africa or on a high mountain pass in alpine Europe. One of our nameless ancestors looked up at the night sky and wondered at the moving lights in the heavens.
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Vulpetti, G., Johnson, L., Matloff, G.L. (2009). An Historical Introduction to Space Propulsion. In: Solar Sails. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68500-7_1
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