British plan to send in man in space with a converted V-2 rocket could happen as early as 1951 if it was approved, so who would become the first astronaut in that program?
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Who would become the first astronaut if Britain launch the first man in space
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When I did it, the first man in space was Vickers' chief test pilot at the time- one Brian Trubshaw. Happening earlier as it did, you're looking at a different generation of pilots and engineers; the first Russian in space would have been Lavochkin's test pilot Mark Gallai.
Both the Soviet Union and the USA concluded that the best persons available for that job were aircraft test pilots because they were allready facing the expected challenges - it was expected that astronauts improvise should anything go wrong, that they keep a cool head in face of stress and during physically taxing tasks, that they are very fit and healthy and that they know and accept the danger and possibility that they're not coming back.
This guy has my vote, so he has flown everything but an Eagle of Manwë!
And he is little - he puts part of the reason for his surviving on being very small and able to tuck himself into a small ball during an unplanned return to earth
Another option De Havilland does not die ditto Valentine Baker - he survives the MB3 crash (although this might snuff Ejector seat development)
Roly Falk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Falk
Roly Beaumont: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Beamont
Roly Gough: https://web.archive.org/web/20050310032846/http://www.cix.co.uk/~sjbradshaw/baxterium/prospero.html
Brian Trubshaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Trubshaw
Victor Carroon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quatermass_Xperiment
Surely Dan Dare and Digby were the first British astronauts.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Dare
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Dare
You'd need to strap two Megarocs together to get him off the ground...
A very useful attribute.
A little OT but in my EDC the first human to exit the atmosphere using purely human tech[1] in a contraption similar to Megaroc[2] was a small Polish woman test-pilot.
[1] As opposed to via passing aliens, time travellers or scavenged/reverse-engineered alien tech. It Was based on Doctor Who so there was a surprising amount of this going on...
[2] A Polish development based on captured Russian rocketry that happened in 1948 (after the Eurasian War) this kick started the exploration of space by severely annoying the triumphant Germans. But then poking Germany was the function of Poland.
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