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Camino Wan Hu
Wàn Hǔ or Wàn Hù (萬虎 or 萬戶) (c. 1500) was a minor Chinese official of the Ming dynasty and perhaps (though not likely) the world's first astronaut.
According to legend, early in the 16th century, Wan decided to take advantage of China's advanced rocket and fireworks technology to launch himself into outer space.
He had a chair built with forty-seven rockets attached. On the day of lift-off, Wan, splendidly attired, climbed into his rocket chair and forty seven servants lit the fuses and then hastily ran for cover. There was a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared, Wan and the chair were gone. He was never seen again.
The Discovery Channel's show "MythBusters" attempted to recreate Wan Hu's flight using materials that would have been available to him. The chair exploded on the launch pad, with the crash test dummy sitting in it suffering severe burns. An attempt was also made using a chair with modern rockets attached, but it barely made it off the ground before going out of control. It was determined that small rockets that can be strapped to a chair cannot provide enough thrust to significantly lift the chair, let alone achieve escape velocity.
NASA named the Wan-Hoo crater of the Moon after him.
The Origin of Wan Hoo
The legend of Wan Hoo was not recorded in any Chinese history book. It was first mentioned in Rockets and Jets written by American author Herbert S. Zim in 1945. It was then introduced into China via translation, and that is why what exact Chinese name this legendary person had (萬虎 or 萬戶) as mentioned above could not be determined just based on the pronunciation. This story is more an urban legend invented a half century ago, than a Chinese history record.
In a show about inventions on Chinese Central Television called Tian Gong Kai Wu, Wan Hoo was said to be able to lift himself only by a foot using those rockets. In most Chinese versions of Wan Hoo's story, he is described as a martyr of space travel who was burnt to death because of the explosion caused by those rockets, instead of the first astronaut in history. Those stories fit perfectly with the result of MythBusters' experiment.
External links
- [http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/printerready/science/geography_items/carters/craters_wxyz.html NASA list]
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