Did We Accidentally Launch a Manhole Cover Into Orbit?
One nuclear test in the 1950s may have accidentally launched a steel cap into space at speeds faster than any spacecraft.
One nuclear test in the 1950s may have accidentally launched a steel cap into space at speeds faster than any spacecraft.
Mysterious Cold War nuclear test may have turned an ordinary manhole cover into humanity’s first accidental space traveler.
Find out how a nuclear test in Nevada might have accidentally launched a steel cap into space before Sputnik existed.