5/19/2023 0 Comments Space odyssey by michael benson![]() ![]() ![]() Tsiolkovsky and Oberth also had important roles to play in early 20th century film projects depicting trips to the Moon.Įven absent a launch, “Woman in the Moon” helped popularize the new science of rocketry. Wells - founders of a nascent genre later to be known as science fiction. All devised their distinctive strains of rocket science in response to speculative novels, specifically the stories of Jules Verne and H.G. Spaceflight as we know it today wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for three extraordinary figures: the borderline-crazy Russian spaceflight visionary Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the hard-right nationalist German-Transylvanian rocketry pioneer Hermann Oberth and the idiosyncratic American rocketeer Robert Goddard. Yet some foundational early rocket science, embedded deep within the developmental history of the Saturn 5 - the towering, five-stage rocket that took Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon 50 years ago this week - was paid for by the budget of the first science fiction film to envision just such a voyage in realistic terms. ![]() Works of fiction aren’t particularly known for having influenced historical events. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing provides a great opportunity to examine how an entire branch of speculative fiction - novels, short stories and also feature films - lies behind the first human footprints on another world. Some unfold as flights of the imagination. Most major achievements, be they personal or collective, arrive after rehearsals. ![]()
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