From Wright brothers to Apollo

[Dr Jekyll]

Many people have remarked on how it only took 66 years to get from the Wright's first flight to landing on the moon. But if neither the Wright's nor anyone else had figured out how to build aeroplanes, would this have stopped an Apollo type project being developed? Could we theoretically have had space rockets but no aeroplanes?

[Dr Jekyll]

Dr Jekyll said:

Many people have remarked on how it only took 66 years to get from the Wright's first flight to landing on the moon. But if neither the Wrights nor anyone else had figured out how to build aeroplanes, would this have stopped an Apollo type project being developed? Could we theoretically have had space rockets but no aeroplanes?

Just a reminder of the original question.