{"id":15889,"date":"2015-08-04T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=15889"},"modified":"2015-08-04T08:20:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T15:20:01","slug":"from-the-earth-to-the-moon-18651968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-18651968","title":{"rendered":"From the Earth to the Moon: 1865\/1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KKZf5Ycf6nc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How does science fiction become science fact? Often the link between art and science can be hard to pin down. It can be unclear if science fiction is actually influencing science or merely observing it, giving the public sneak peaks into the implications of scientist\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>But some work of science fiction create direct links to the future. As a young man in Russia, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky read a translation of Jules Verne\u2019s \u2018From the Earth to the Moon.\u201d And although Verne\u2019s plan to get to the moon wouldn\u2019t have worked, the novel had just enough science mixed in with its romance to make the central idea seem plausible. Tsiolkovsky became obsessed with the idea of spaceflight, and his life\u2019s work created the foundations of modern rocketry.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred years after Verne wrote his novel, a group of individuals who had been inspired by Verne\u2019s fantasy as children launched a voyage to the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does science fiction become science fact? Often the link between art and science can be hard to pin down. It can be unclear if science fiction is actually influencing science or merely observing it, giving the public sneak peaks into the implications of scientist\u2019s work. But some work of science fiction create direct links [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1545,8,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-astronomy","category-space","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}