Space Travel: Fly me to the moon
colonization of the moon Four hundred years ago today, in 1640, this scientist went insane, John Wilkins started talking like crazy. He began to say that he would go to the moon and shake hands with the people who live there. Wilkins was a religious man who believed that God must have created creatures everywhere, and on the moon too. He began to study the flight of birds that how do they fly. Then he designed a wooden boat-shaped airship to go to the moon. The design of that airship was to fly with the help of wings, and to get out of the gravity of the earth was to use gunpowder to receive the first push. John Wilkins, like many other scientists of his time, believed that the only way to reach the moon was to get out of Earth's gravity. Scientists of that era until then, they did not know that there is no oxygen in space. But then he realized in his life that it is not possible to breathe in space, therefore that idea did not work. Thoughts don't work but he has not given up