Dentists - Doctors - Inventors - Medicine - Science
Aug. 14, 1959 - British scientists are ready to start building a two-man space ship: British scientists are ready to start building a two man space ship. Blueprints of the ship - detailed down to feet and inches, are on the drawing board. A model has been built and all its tests so far have been completely successful. Only government money to back the project is now needed. Dr. William Hilton, 47, Britain's top wind tunnel expert, revealed this today. On Monday he starts a new job with the hawker Siddeley aircraft group at Kingston -leading a six-man team who will work flat out until the first ship is a reality. Dr. Hilton believes that Britain has solved the crucial problem of getting a man Back from space. Photo shows Dr. William Hilton is seen here with a model of a guided missile in the observe port of a wind tunnel
