The page includes photos from NASA and illustrations from the pulp magazines. It’s a pretty interesting read, too.

The website has several pages dedicated to various topics such as future history, artificial gravity, side arms and more.

Explore “Atomic Rockets” here.

Later, Sir Isaac Newton developed a thought experiment that placed a cannon on a very high mountain that, with the right amount of gun powder, was able to shoot a canon into orbit.

To some degree, this is how we launch space vehicles. But not really.

Now, according to Bart Leahy, a group of graduate students and academics hopes to launch low-cost satellites into orbit using a concept similar to that of Verne.

Read more in The Space Review.