Being able to orbit the moon on ... (1857-1935), rocket scientist Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, one of the pioneers of modern rocketry and astronautics, also named Jules Verne as the person ...
“Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics ... published a paper that used a mathematical formula to take the rocket’s mass to its velocity. He was a fan of Jules Verne’s “From the Earth to the Moon, ...
Sci-fi comedy classic. An American showman gets involved in an ambitious plot to launch a rocket to the moon with the aid of a powerful explosive.
As Radio 4 embarks on a journey To the Ends of the Earth with a set of Victorian adventure stories, we examine how the work of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne feeds into the modern ...