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* The [[Planetary]] story "The Gun Club" features a [[Nightmare Fuel]]-tinged [[Deconstruction]] of Verne's classic tale, ''[[From the Earth to the Moon]].''▼
* ''Dan Dare'' in ''[[The Eagle]]'' comic is perhaps ''the'' example of trying hard to be scientifically accurate space travel (for the 1950s, at least), with (almost all) the stories being limited to travel around a then-realistic version of the solar system using then-realistic spacecraft etc.▼
* A countless number of B-movies, such as ''Rocketship to Venus'', ''[[Rocketship X-M]]'', ''[[Destination Moon]]'' and ''[[Project Moonbase]]''. ▼
* ''[[Mission to Mars]]'' and ''[[Red Planet (film)|Red Planet]]'', newer version of this trope.▼
* The Wallace and Gromit short ''A Grand Day Out'' involves a rocket trip to the moon, which is made of green cheese.▼
* [[Fritz Lang]]'s 1929 film ''[[Woman in the Moon]].''▼
* A.N. Tolstory's ''Aelita'', later adapted into the groundbreaking 1924 Soviet science fiction film of the same name, describes a voyage to Mars.▼
* The Russian film ''Planeta Bur'' (Storm Planet, 1962) is about an expedition to Venus that discovers dinosaurs. Bit of a running theme, actually.▼
* And of course, ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.▼
* The [[Ur Example]] is Lucien's ''True Story'', the first work of western fiction, about a voyage to the moon.
* ''Orlando Furioso'', loosely based on the era of Charlemagne, has the knight Astolfo fly to the Moon on a hippogriff.
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* The [[Backstory]] of the [[Red Mars Trilogy]] has John Boone become a worldwide hero-celebrity because he led the first Mars voyage.
* ''[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_09/ The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew]'', a 2009 short story by [[Catherynne M. Valente|Catherynne M Valente]] has a documentary team fired into space from a giant cannon and exploring Venus via silk balloon.
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* ''[[The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet]]'' by Eleanor Cameron, a 1954 [[Children's Literature|children's book]] about a pair of boys, aided by a reclusive astronomer/scientist, who visit a previously unknown satellite of the Earth.
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* The ''[[Space: 1889]]'' RPG took this trope and ran with it, featuring Victorian-era space
▲* The [[Planetary]] story "The Gun Club" features a [[Nightmare Fuel]]-tinged [[Deconstruction]] of Verne's classic tale, ''[[From the Earth to the Moon]].''
▲* ''Dan Dare'' in ''The Eagle'' comic is perhaps ''the'' example of trying hard to be scientifically accurate space travel (for the 1950s, at least), with (almost all) the stories being limited to travel around a then-realistic version of the solar system using then-realistic spacecraft etc.
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▲* A countless number of B-movies, such as ''Rocketship to Venus'', ''[[Rocketship X-M]]'', ''[[Destination Moon]]'' and ''[[Project Moonbase]]''.
▲* ''[[Mission to Mars]]'' and ''[[Red Planet (film)|Red Planet]]'', newer version of this trope.
▲* The Wallace and Gromit short ''A Grand Day Out'' involves a rocket trip to the moon, which is made of green cheese.
▲* [[Fritz Lang]]'s 1929 film ''[[Woman in the Moon]].''
▲* A.N. Tolstory's ''Aelita'', later adapted into the groundbreaking 1924 Soviet science fiction film of the same name, describes a voyage to Mars.
▲* The Russian film ''Planeta Bur'' (Storm Planet, 1962) is about an expedition to Venus that discovers dinosaurs. Bit of a running theme, actually.
▲* And of course, ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.
▲== Other ==
* Although actual space travel wasn't involved, the infamous "Moon Hoax" article series in the New York ''Sun'' used a super-telescope and elements of this trope to boost circulation in the mid-1800s.
▲== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
▲* The ''Space 1889'' RPG took this trope and ran with it, featuring Victorian-era space colonies—colonies, as in "Age of European Colonialism"—on the Moon, Mars, and Venus.
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