Wheelbarrow launched into air with powerful firecracker

Have a look at…

…and scroll almost down to the bottom for “Propulsion of steel plate cap”. It is a small (0.3 KT) nuke and a 0.9 ton piece of armour plating that either evaporated or reached many time escape velocity. Maybe not as impressive as landing the right way up, but perhaps the first man-made object to leave Earth’s gravity.

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