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Pierre-Jérôme Lordon, The Arrest of Saint Mark, 1819

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Veronese. St. Mark Crowning the Virtues. 1556.

Oil on canvas.

Musée du Louvre. Paris, France.

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St Mark the Evangelist (Icon from the royal gates of the central iconostasis of the Kazan Cathedral in St.Petersburgh)

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Excursions to the Moon have been a staple trope in science fiction since the first (arguably!) science fiction story of all time, Lucian’s second century True History. So has stretching the possibilities of reality. Over the centuries, speculative fiction authors have proposed their own means of transportation to Earth’s glowing satellite. And before rockets become popular in the early 1900s, those ideas stretched the limits of possibility pretty far. Here’s a rundown on fiction’s moon transportation methods, from the almost plausible to the clearly insane.

The Most Ridiculous Moon Landings in Science Fiction History

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Gustave Doré - Illustrations to Orlando Furioso

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The Descent Of The Spirit, Gustave Doré

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DORÉ, Gustave (1832-1883)

This said, they both betook them several ways (illustration for John Milton’s Paradise Lost) Engraving Ed. Orig.

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Philipp Veit

Germania

c.1834

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This image of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana appeared on the cover of the first issue of LIFE - published 79 years ago this week, November 23, 1936. (Margaret Bourke-White—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #thisweekinLIFE

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Anton Pinkava, Staroslovanský tábor na Devíne, 1937.

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This 1925 postcard envisioning the future of New York comes strikingly close. Only a decade later, pioneering photographer Berenice Abbott began capturing this unfolding futurism in her magnificent series Changing New York. 

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The Polygon Nuclear Test Site I, Kazakhstan