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Space suits, which are an extension of underwater suits, have a long history in both fiction and real life. Project RHO has a pretty interesting pictorial history of the space suit that include a bit of both fact and fiction.

The page includes photos from NASA and illustrations from the pulp magazines. It’s a pretty interesting read, too.

The website has several pages dedicated to various topics such as future history, artificial gravity, side arms and more.

Explore “Atomic Rockets” here.

Once upon a time — it was 1866 — Jules Verne wrote an adventure story in which a group of Americans build a large cannon to shoot the first men to the Moon.

Later, Sir Isaac Newton developed a thought experiment that placed a cannon on a very high mountain that, with the right amount of gun powder, was able to shoot a canon into orbit.

To some degree, this is how we launch space vehicles. But not really.

Now, according to Bart Leahy, a group of graduate students and academics hopes to launch low-cost satellites into orbit using a concept similar to that of Verne.

Read more in The Space Review.