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... by that great fantastic author Jules Verne—he directed my thinking." Hermann Oberth, "the father of the V2," wrote, "I always had in mind the rockets designed by Jules Verne." We've already mentioned von Braun's expression of debt. Other space pioneers Verne influenced include American rocket inventor Robert H. Goddard ...

... port. Fortunately the future of space history was spared by Jules’ capture. As you will see in the pages ahead, Jules Verne was not the only young teen attracted by the romance of adventures at sea. In 1848 France was in the throes of revolution and Jules Verne found himself spending ... of this basic truth long before Oberth, before Goddard, before Tsiolkovsky, and yes, even before Jules Verne. His name was William Leitch ... The First Scientific Concept of Rockets for Space Travel by ...

... dealing with new technologies and technological change has generally been of one of two kinds. Jules Verne and many others were basically optimists, believing in inevitable progress through technological change. This optimistic ... opera ''Le Voyage dans la Lune '' (1875) was inspired by Jules Vernes’ story, ''De la Terra a la lune '' (1872). Though Vernes’ story was fictional, both it and Offenbach’s opera were meant ...

... ESA ’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), known as Jules Verne spacecraft Jules Verne or ATV 1, launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Guiana Space Center in Kourou, ... (595 pounds) of drinking water and 21 kilograms (46 pounds) of oxygen. The ATV Jules Verne spacecraft Jules Verne , which measured 10.3 meters (34 feet) high and 4.5 meters (15 feet) wide ... with the ISS on 3 April 2008. '' ESA , “Europe Launches Its First Re-Supply Ship— Jules Verne spacecraft Jules Verne ATV—to the ISS ,” press release no. 15-2008, 9 March 2008, http://www ...

... of Jules Verne 's ''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'', ''From the Earth to the Moon'' and ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' as well as a companion/atlas to Verne's ... International Association of Astronomical Artists ; an Honorary Member of the Sociétè Jules Verne (Paris); a past member of the North American Jules Verne Society and a past Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society . A ...

... wife. Dominik later cited his own influences as three Frenchmen, Henri Parville , Alexandre Dumas and Jules Verne . As he was a writer of articles on mechanical and electrical engineering it is not ... made it clear that he was modeling the voyage on that proposed by Jules Verne , but he also knew that Verne’s method wouldn’t work. At the very beginning of the story ... to create an exhaust velocity sufficient to lift the weight of the rocket into space. Jules Verne had correctly calculated the magic number, 11.2 kilometers per second (7 miles per second ...

... all nudged along their historic course by the writings of Jules Verne, and most specifically his serial ''From the Earth to the Moon''. Verne's novel about mankind's first space launch holds ... witness an important eclipse. Image:100YearsCanadianSlide02.JPG right thumb Jules Verne's The Fur Country It seems fitting that as early as 1873 Verne recognized that Canada's high latitudes offered a unique ...

... =110_senate_hearings&docid=f:41242.pdf Report (accessed 15 March 2011).'' ESA ’s ATV Jules Verne spacecraft Jules Verne successfully docked with the ISS in a 4-hour process completed at 14:52 ... near Moscow and from NASA’s JSC . The ISS partners planned for the ATV Jules Verne spacecraft Jules Verne to remain docked at the ISS for approximately four months, during which time the ATV ...

... -spacecraft-asteroid-flyby-success.html (accessed 27 July 2011).'' ESA ’s first ATV, known as Jules Verne spacecraft Jules Verne , undocked from the ISS at 23:29 (CEST). The ATV, which had launched on ... to take the ISS out of the path of debris from an old satellite. Before Jules Verne spacecraft Jules Verne ’s departure, ISS crew members had loaded it with 2.5 tonnes (2,500 ...

... (Northern Ontario) Railway. Besides this he was a devotee of the French novelist Jules Verne and obviously became enthralled by Verne’s classics,'' A Trip to the Moon'' (1860) and its sequel, ''A ... says he has been amassing facts and figures on space navigation since he first read Jules Verne 40 years ago in 1906, or, when he was about seven years old . In 1941 ... as early as 1906 at age seven or so, after reading the space novels of Jules Verne. Therefore, all three of these men had the lifelong dream of spaceflight in common. Fox ...

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