also named Jules Verne as the person who inspired his interest in space flight. Tsiolkovsky also emulated Verne as a writer, publishing the novel "On the Moon" in 1893. He also wrote many ...

He shot characters into space and out of erupting volcanoes ... Radio 4's To the Ends of the Earth season begins with Jules Verne's classic Journey to the Centre of the Earth which is available ...

Verne’s tale provides an uncannily prescient account of the development of space travel: Three astronauts blast off from Florida in a small aluminum capsule, fired from the end of an enormous cast ...