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Manned Spaceflight Timeline
• 1865—Jules Verne “From The Earth To The Moon”
• 1869—E. E. Hale “The Brick Moon”, Also Proposed “GPS”
• 1897—H. G. Wells “War of The Worlds”
• 1948—H. E. Ross, British Planetary Soc. Plan for Lunar Landing and Return
• 1952—Von Braun “Man on The Moon, The Journey”
• 1954—Von Braun “Can We Go To Mars?”
• 1961—First Manned Mercury Flight
• 1965-- First Manned Gemini Flight
• 1968—First Manned Apollo Flight
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