Early Rockets, NASA history collection
Summary
Science fiction writers, like Jules Verne in France and Edward Everett Hale in America, had discovered one of the most vital elements in the formula for space travel-a fertile imagination. The first known proposal for a marned-satellite appears in a story by Hale entitled "The Brick Moon" published in 1899. The story involved a group of young Bostonians who planned to put an artificial satellite into polar orbit for sailors to use to determine longitude accurately and easily. They planned to send a brick satellite into orbit because the satellite would have to withstand fire very well. The Satellite's 37 inhabitants signaled the Earth in morse code by jumping up and down on the outside of the satellite.
- The Brick Moon - Wikipedia
- The Story of the Brick Moon - Carnegie Technologies
- The Brick Moon and Other Stories - Amazon.com
- The Brick Moon and Other Stories - Edward Everett Hale - Bookshop
- The Brick Moon and Other Stories: Hale, Edward Everett - Amazon.ca
- The Brick Moon and Other Stories : Hale, Edward Everett - Amazon.sg
- Throwback Thursday: "The Brick Moon" by Edward Everett Hale (1870)
- The Brick Moon and Other Stories : Hale, Edward Everett
- File:The Brick Moon from NASA archive.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
- The Brick Moon and Other Stories : Hale, Edward Everett - Amazon
Tags
edward everett hale
the brick moon
space travel
msfc
marshall space flight center
rockets
high resolution
nasa
Date
2000 - 2020
Location
Marshall Spaceflight Center, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, United States, 35808
,
34.63076, -86.66505
Source
NASA
Link
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)