A Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Manuscript Reveals the First Designs for Fashionable Rockets

The Aus­tri­an mil­i­tary engi­neer Con­rad Haas was a person forward of his time — certainly, about 400 years forward, con­sid­er­ing that he was work­ing on rock­ets aimed for out­er house again within the mid-six­teenth cen­tu­ry. Want­much less to say, he nev­er actu­al­ly man­aged to launch any­factor into the higher atmos­phere. However it’s a must to…