Eric Brown was close to being Britain’s first astronaut.
The British Interplanetary Society proposed modifications to the V-2 in 1946 to make it a viable suborbital article, and also reusable. Access to V-2 technology and that early access to von Braun put Britain ten years ahead of the rest of the world. They called it Megaroc and submitted the pitch to the Ministry of Supply. Eric Brown was head of the line to test fly the thing, and that could have happened as early as 1949.
If Britain hadn’t been bankrupt. If a third of London hadn’t been missing.
I wrote a book around this notion, called MINISTRY OF SPACE.
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