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Early Space Exploration
From time to time it is healthy, enlightening, and sometimes even entertaining to revisit the roots from which contemporary thinking has emerged. In the case of Sci-Fi retracing its roots even blurs the line between fact and fiction. I don't just mean making the leap from NASA to George Lucas where it is easy to imagine today's technology tomorrow and then setting the same age-old story formulae in outer space. Rather, in the very early days it was not only a question of getting into Space but more fundamentally getting anything off the ground at all. And even Leonardo da Vinci was ridiculed for designing his first Flying Machine Inventions. But the laughter stopped when the Wright Brothers proved flight was possible. From that day forward the focus shifted to flight's real potential, and it was from here that adventurers, and fiction writers, turned their attention skyward.
At the turn of the last century H.G. Wells in "The First Men in the Moon" reasoned that a spacecraft could be propelled by Cavorite (iron infused with helium) and that navigation could be managed by exposing panels on the exterior of the ship to the atmosphere. In the photo above, a professor lectures in an observatory at a university about how a ship large enough to hold a human crew can be shot out of a cannon and reach the moon (gravity would ensure their safe return). In both these examples it is interesting to note the naive belief that the moon's atmosphere possesses enough oxygen to support life. Anyway, years later when many of the realities of space travel were commonplace such quaint notions became the object of parody in the 1963 film "The Mouse on the Moon" based on a story by Leonard Wibberley. In this version, wine is used to fuel the rocket engines which use shower heads for thruster jets. The rest, as they say, is history.
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