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Fly Me to the Moon

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But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

~ Arthur Rimbaud

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1902

Georges Mlis, Le voyage dans la Lune (Trip to the Moon)

A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black-and-white silent science fiction film. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells.

The film was written and directed by Georges Mlis, assisted by his brother Gaston. The film runs 14 minutes if projected at 16 frames per second, which was the standard frame rate at


the time the film was produced. It was extremely popular at the time of its release, and is the best-known of the hundreds of fantasy films made by Mlis.

A Trip to the Moon is the first science fiction film, and uses innovative animation and special effects, including the well-known image of the spaceship landing in the moon's eye.


1902

Georges Mlis, Le voyage dans la Lune (Trip to the Moon)


1907

Georges Mlis, The Eclipse


-V-2 Rocket (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, i.e. Retaliation Weapon 2), technical name Aggregat-4 (A4)-

First used by Germany and then, after 1945 by Soviet Union and United States of America.

1942/1952

Wernher von Braun, Walter Riedel, V-2 Rocket


1942/1952

-technical name Aggregat-4 (A4)-

The V-2 Rocket, was a ballistic missile that was developed at the beginning of the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp. The liquid-propellant rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile and first known non-human-piloted artifact to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight. It was the progenitor of all modern rockets, including those used by the United States and Soviet Union's space programs.



1942/1952

During the aftermath of World War II the American, Soviet and British governments all gained access to the V-2's technical designs and the actual German scientists responsible for creating the rockets, via Operation Paperclip, Operation Osoaviakhim and Operation Backfire.



1942/1952

The weapon was presented by Nazi propaganda as a retaliation for the bombers that attacked ever more German cities from 1942 until the end of the war.

Over 3,000 V-2s were launched as military rockets by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets during the war, mostly London and later Antwerp. The attacks resulted in the death of an estimated 7,250 military personnel and civilians, while 12,000 forced labourers were killed producing the weapons.



1944/1945

-German: Vergeltungswaffe 1, "Retaliation Weapon 1"-

Also colloquially known in Britain as the Doodlebug, was an early pulse-jet-powered predecessor of the cruise missile.

Robert Lusser, Fieseler Fi 103, Better Known as the V-1

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