A space gun, sometimes called a Verne gun, is a theoretical method of launching an object into space using a large gun- or cannon-like structure. Space guns could thus potentially provide a method of
The Quicklauncher spacegun
Two sections of the Project Babylon gun
Project HARP, a prototype of a space gun.
The firing of a space gun in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon
Around the Moon, also translated as Circling the Moon and All Around the Moon, is the sequel to Jules Verne's 1865 novel, From the Earth to the Moon. It is a science fiction tale which continues the t
An illustration from Jules Verne's novel Around the Moon drawn by Émile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse de Neuville, September 16, 1872