Was Otto Fischer, brother to German rocket designer Bruno Fischer, first to man a rocket? An article at io9.com relates, "on October 29,..

Retrovision: Air Mail or Rocket Post

A ban on missile research after World War I resulted in development of a large German civilian rocketry program to fill gap. Gerhard..

retro-weekend drive-in: disney’s 1955 ‘man in space’

Walt Disney helped sell American public on Space. Man in Space, first of a three-part series in the fifties, proved popular and possibly..