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Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)

- October 24, 2017 in Alphonse de Neuville, Émile-Antoine Bayard, jules verne, Les Miserables, moon, science fiction, space travel, spaceship

Arguably the very first images to depict space travel on a scientific basis, these wonderful illustrations are the work of the French illustrator Émile-Antoine Bayard.

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Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)

- September 12, 2017 in Alphonse de Neuville, Émile-Antoine Bayard, jules verne, Les Miserables, moon, science fiction, space travel, spaceship

Arguably the very first images to depict space travel on a scientific basis, these wonderful illustrations are the work of the French illustrator Émile-Antoine Bayard.

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Émile-Antoine Bayard’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)

- September 12, 2017 in Alphonse de Neuville, Émile-Antoine Bayard, jules verne, Les Miserables, moon, science fiction, space travel, spaceship

Arguably the very first images to depict space travel on a scientific basis, these wonderful illustrations are the work of the French illustrator Émile-Antoine Bayard.

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Bayard and de Neuville’s Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)

- September 12, 2017 in Alphonse de Neuville, Émile-Antoine Bayard, jules verne, Les Miserables, moon, science fiction, space travel, spaceship

Arguably the very first images to depict space travel on a scientific basis, by the French illustrators Émile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse de Neuville.

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Hi-Res Images from the Apollo Missions

- October 6, 2015 in apollo 11, buzz aldrin, evidence, moon, moon landing, nasa, neil armstrong, photographs of moon landing, space travel

Selection of super hi-res images from the Apollo 11 mission, from the criss-cross of boot prints in the lunar dust, to Neil Armstrong's watery gaze after first landing.

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Hi-Res Images from the Apollo Missions

- October 6, 2015 in apollo 11, buzz aldrin, evidence, moon, moon landing, nasa, neil armstrong, photographs of moon landing, space travel

Selection of super hi-res images from the Apollo 11 mission, from the criss-cross of boot prints in the lunar dust, to Neil Armstrong's watery gaze after first landing.

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A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future (1894)

- July 10, 2014 in apergy, future technologies, john jacob astor, retrofuturism, rms titanic, science fiction, space travel, titanic, waldorf astoria hotel

A science fiction novel by the incredibly wealthy businessman and member of the prominent Astor family, John Jacob Astor IV, in which he offers an imagining of life in the year 2000.

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A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future (1894)

- July 10, 2014 in apergy, future technologies, john jacob astor, retrofuturism, rms titanic, science fiction, space travel, titanic, waldorf astoria hotel

A science fiction novel by the incredibly wealthy businessman and member of the prominent Astor family, John Jacob Astor IV, in which he offers an imagining of life in the year 2000.

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