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"Science fiction is really sociological studies of the future, things that the writer believes are going to happen by putting two and two together."
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![]() A great cannon having been cast and placed in the soil of Florida, what sort of projectile could be used to send several intrepid passengers to the Moon?
Note the four basic elements of this spacecraft:
This illustration accompanies an 1880 Pall Mall Gazette article about Verne's work.
![]() (From an article describing Astor's spaceship) The first truly scientific work on space flight was not published until Konstantin Ziolkovsky (Tsiolkovsky) published his seminal paper "Exploration of Space With Reactive Devices" in 1903. He showed how a rocket ship could be used to send humans beyond Earth orbit, and included calculations that led him to believe that multiple-staged vehicles would increase the payload (the Chinese had experimented with this idea earlier). NASA paid to translate all of his works into English in 1965. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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