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| A Trip to the Moon, 1902, dir. Georges Méliès. |
Rocket Science
Since the first Magic Lantern Projectors and photographic telescopes, moving image technologies have been used to depict our aspirations and speculations about space travel. Early films such as Georges Méliès' Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1906) and Ashley Miller's A Trip to Mars (1910) kick-started a relationship between cinema and interplanetary travel which continues to this day.
Meanwhile, scientists including Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Hermann Oberth and Robert H. Goddard were turning their attention towards designing rockets that could breach the Earth's atmosphere. Their writings became the foundation of modern aeronautical science, motivating both scientists and filmmakers for decades to come.
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