Everything about The Brick Moon totally explained
"
The Brick Moon" is a
short story by
Edward Everett Hale, published serially in
The Atlantic Monthly starting in 1869. It is a work of
speculative fiction containing the first known depiction of an artificial
satellite.
Synopsis
"The Brick Moon" is written as if it were a journal. It describes the construction and launch into
orbit of a sphere, 200 ft. in diameter, built of bricks. It is intended as a navigational aid, but is accidentally launched with people aboard. It thus also provides the first known fictional description of a
space station.
Related works
In 1865
Jules Verne had published his novel,
From the Earth to the Moon, which includes the notion of
human spaceflight, but not the idea of an artificial satellite.
In 1979 the
Wagner College Planetarium presented a public show which incorporated an adaptation by planetarium director
Thomas Wm. Hamilton of
The Brick Moon.
Further Information
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