Wan Hu is an alleged Chinese official described in modern sources as possibly the first man to attempt to use a rocket to launch into outer space. Credited as possibly the "world's first astronaut" and "the first martyr in man's struggle to achieve space flight", the International Astronomical Union named the crater Wan-Hoo on the far side of the Moon after him in 1970.
Wan Hu is an alleged Chinese official described in modern sources as possibly the first man to attempt to use a rocket to launch into outer space. Credited as possibly the "world's first astronaut" and "the first martyr in man's struggle to achieve space flight", the International Astronomical Union named the crater Wan-Hoo on the far side of the Moon after him in 1970.
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