Cromwell’s moonshot
`More than 300 years before the Soviet Union launched its Sputnik satellites and American astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped on to the Moon, England had its own ambitious space programme.
It came in the shape of a 17th-century clergyman who drew up plans for a spaceship powered by wings, springs and gunpowder [..]‘
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