History Main / InterplanetaryVoyage

* ''Literature/TheRoadToMars'': This 2014 collaborative Russian {{novel}} was written by 15 authors. It deals with the [[MultinationalTeam multinational crew]] of the spacecraft ''Ares'', sent to explore the red planet as part of a joint American/Russian/European mission with two crewmembers from each of these blocs. They are actually in a race to overtake the ''Millennium Boat'', a Chinese craft sent to the same destination a little earlier with only two crewmembers. Privately, though, some of the crewmembers on both vessels would much rather work together to ensure that everyone got home safely rather than win at any cost. After all, it's just them out there, with no other living soul for millions of miles. There is a supernatural component to the novel, though, which starts to affect the crew of the ''Ares''.

* A countless number of B-movies, such as ''Rocketship to Venus'', ''Film/RocketshipXM'', ''Film/DestinationMoon'' and ''Film/ProjectMoonbase''.

* ''The Adventures Of Baron Münchhausen'' (1786) involve two trips to the Moon.

* Arthur C. Clarkes's 1951 ''Prelude to Space'', to the point where the entire story revolves around the launch preparations and the flight itself is almost an afterthought.

* Stephen King's short story "The Cursed Expedition" is about a trip to a [[GeniusLoci living, carnivorous]] Venus.

* ''Literature/TheFirstMenInTheMoon'' by H.G.Wells (1901).

* C.S. Lewis' ''Literature/SpaceTrilogy''.
** Literature/OutOfTheSilentPlanet has Ransom abducted, and taken to Malacandara (Mars).
** Literature/{{Perelandra}} has Ransom willingly go to Perelandra (Venus).
** Literature/ThatHideousStrength has an inversion: several eldila (effectively, [[spoiler:angels]]) travel from 'their' planets to visit Ransom.

* ''Edison's Conquest of Mars'' (1898) by Garrett P. Serviss. Not as awesome as the name implies, as Edison commits genocide againsts the Martians. The message is less ''Scientific progress is fun!'' and more ''do not fuck with Edison.''

* Creator/LarryNiven's short story "Literature/BecalmedInHell" (1965), involving a trip to a hellishly hot Venus. "The Coldest Place" and "The Hole Man" were set on Mercury and Mars, respectively.

* The BackStory of the Literature/RedMarsTrilogy has John Boone become a worldwide hero-celebrity because he led the first Mars voyage.

* ''Literature/TheLastHero'' is a MagiTek version, with a group of explorers reaching the Literature/{{Discworld}}'s moon by means of a giant wooden bird powered by [[OurDragonsAreDifferent swamp dragons]].

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* The Wallace and Gromit short ''WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut'' involves a rocket trip to the moon, which is made of green cheese.

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* Season 3 of the hard sci-fi alternate history series ''Series/ForAllMankind'' is about a space race to Mars between NASA, the Soviets, and the private company Helios. Episode 4 "Happy Valley" solely focuses on the travel between Earth and Mars, being a modern and (relatively) more realistic take on this trope's definition.
* ''Series/SpaceOdysseyVoyageToThePlanets'', a 2004 science-fiction docudrama involving the crewed exploration of several planets in our Solar System in a journey that takes several years and faces hardships like solar radiation exposure.
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''To put it another way'', an Interplanetary Voyage is a specific type of science-fiction story that takes the phrase "getting there is half the fun" very literally. In most cases these stories focus just as much, if not more, on the actual process of traveling in space as they do on the destination itself. Nowadays, this is largely a DeadHorseTrope outside of parodies or GenreThrowback works--the fact that space travel actually exists now allows writers to spend less time establishing it and more time building alien worlds. As a result, Interplanetary Voyage stories are strongly associated with science fiction novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and with pulp magazines published during that era.

* Arthur C. Clarkes's 1951 ''Prelude to Space''.

* Season 3 of the hard sci-fi alternate history series ''Series/ForAllMankind'' is about a space race to Mars between NASA, the Soviets, and the private company Helios. Episode 4 "Happy Valley" solely focuses on the travel between Earth and Mars, being a modern and more realistic take on this trope's definition.

* As of 2022, no human has ever gone beyond the Moon. However, several engineering concepts and proposals for human missions to Mars have existed since the 1950s, such as the UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} Design Reference Missions. UsefulNotes/SpaceX is currently planning to send people to Mars using their reusable rocket system known as "Starship." Missions to other destinations have occasionally been considered, such as HAVOC (High Altitude Venus Operational Concept) and HOPE (Human Outer Planet Exploration), a crewed mission to Jupiter's moon, Callisto.

* ''{{Literature/Voyage}}'' by Stephen Baxter is a combination of this and AlternateHistory tropes.

* And of course, ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', involving the ''Discovery's'' mission to Jupiter.

* ''Film/TheMartian'', based on the aforementioned, eponymous novel.

* And of course, ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.

* Season 3 of ''Series/ForAllMankind'' is about a space race to Mars between NASA, the Soviets, and the private company Helios. Episode 4 "Happy Valley" solely focuses on the travel between Earth and Mars.

Nevertheless, some modern writers still play this trope straight as a form of {{Zeerust}}, while others treat it more realistically--works on the harder side of the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness might depict a crewed mission to a planet like Mars or Jupiter using modern or near-future technology as a long and arduous journey, dealing with challenges such as life support, radiation, or equipment failures.

Nevertheless, some modern writers still play this trope straight, but often more realistically--works on the harder side of the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness might depict a crewed mission to a planet like Mars or Jupiter using modern or near-future technology as a long and arduous journey, dealing with challenges such as life support, radiation, or equipment failures.

Nevertheless, some modern writers still play this trope straight, but often more realistically--works on the harder side of the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness might depict a crewed mission to a planet like Mars or Jupiter using modern or near-future technology as a long and arduous journey, dealing with challenges such as life support or equipment failures.

''To put it another way'', an Interplanetary Voyage is a specific type of science-fiction story that takes the phrase "getting there is half the fun" very literally. In most cases these stories focus just as much, if not more, on the actual process of traveling in space as they do on the destination itself. Nowadays, this is largely a DeadHorseTrope outside of parodies or GenreThrowback works--the fact that space travel actually exists now allows writers to spend less time establishing it and more time building alien worlds. As a result, Interplanetary Voyage stories are strongly associated with science fiction novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and with pulp magazines published during that era. Nevertheless, some modern writers still play this trope straight, and often more realistically--works on the harder side of the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness might depict a crewed mission to a planet like Mars or Jupiter using modern or near-future technology as a long and arduous journey, dealing with challenges such as life support or equipment failures.

''To put it another way'', an Interplanetary Voyage is a specific type of science-fiction story that takes the phrase "getting there is half the fun" very literally. In most cases these stories focus just as much, if not more, on the actual process of traveling in space as they do on the destination itself. Nowadays, this is largely a DeadHorseTrope outside of parodies or GenreThrowback works--the fact that space travel actually exists now allows writers to spend less time establishing it and more time building alien worlds. As a result, Interplanetary Voyage stories are strongly associated with science fiction novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and with pulp magazines published during that era. Nevertheless, some modern writers still play this trope straight, and sometimes more realistically--works on the harder side of the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness might depict a crewed mission to a planet like Mars or Jupiter as a long and arduous journey, dealing with challenges such as life support or equipment failures.

* As of 2022, no human has ever gone beyond the Moon. However, several engineering concepts and proposals for human missions to Mars have existed since the 1950s, such as the UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} Design Reference Missions. UsefulNotes/SpaceX is currently planning to send people to Mars using their reusable rocket system known as "Starship." Other destinations have occasionally been considered, such as HAVOC (High Altitude Venus Operational Concept) and HOPE (Human Outer Planet Exploration), a crewed mission to Jupiter's moon, Callisto.

* As of 2022, no human has ever gone beyond the Moon. However, several engineering concepts and proposals for human missions to Mars have existed since the 1950s, such as the NASA Design Reference Missions. UsefulNotes/SpaceX is currently planning to send people to Mars using their reusable rocket system known as "Starship." Other destinations have occasionally been considered, such as HAVOC (High Altitude Venus Operational Concept) and HOPE (Human Outer Planet Exploration), a crewed mission to Jupiter's moon, Callisto.

''To put it another way'', an Interplanetary Voyage is a specific type of science-fiction story that takes the phrase "getting there is half the fun" very literally. In most cases these stories focus just as much, if not more, on the actual process of traveling in space as they do on the destination itself. Nowadays, this is largely a DeadHorseTrope outside of parodies or GenreThrowback works--the fact that space travel actually exists now allows writers to spend less time establishing it and more time building alien worlds. As a result, Interplanetary Voyage stories are strongly associated with science fiction novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and with pulp magazines published during that era. Nevertheless, some modern writers still play this trope straight, and sometimes more realistically - works on the harder side of the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness might depict a crewed mission to a planet like Mars or Jupiter as a long and arduous journey, dealing with challenges such as life support or equipment failures.

* The Apollo program, which probably turned this into a DeadHorseTrope.

''To put it another way'', an Interplanetary Voyage is a specific type of science-fiction story that takes the phrase "getting there is half the fun" very literally. In most cases these stories focus just as much, if not more, on the actual process of traveling in space as they do on the destination itself. Nowadays, this is largely a DeadHorseTrope outside of parodies or GenreThrowback works--the fact that space travel actually exists now allows writers to spend less time establishing it and more time building alien worlds. As a result, Interplanetary Voyage stories are strongly associated with science fiction novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and with pulp magazines published during that era. Nevertheless, some modern writers still play this trope straight, and sometimes more realistically - works on the harder side of the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness might depict a crewed mission to a planet like Mars or Jupiter as a long and arduous journey, dealing with challenges such as life support or cosmic radiation.

''To put it another way'', an Interplanetary Voyage is a specific type of science-fiction story that takes the phrase "getting there is half the fun" very literally. In most cases these stories focus just as much, if not more, on the actual process of traveling in space as they do on the destination itself. Nowadays, this is largely a DeadHorseTrope outside of parodies or GenreThrowback works--the fact that space travel actually exists now allows writers to spend less time establishing it and more time building alien worlds. As a result, Interplanetary Voyage stories are strongly associated with science fiction novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and with pulp magazines published during that era. Nevertheless, some modern writers still play this trope straight, but more realistically - works on the harder side of the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness might depict a crewed mission to a planet like Mars or Jupiter as a long and arduous journey, dealing with challenges such as life support or cosmic radiation.

''To put it another way'', an Interplanetary Voyage is a specific type of science-fiction story that takes the phrase "getting there is half the fun" very literally. In most cases these stories focus just as much, if not more, on the actual process of traveling in space as they do on the destination itself. Nowadays, this is largely a DeadHorseTrope outside of parodies or GenreThrowback works--the fact that space travel actually exists now allows writers to spend less time establishing it and more time building alien worlds. As a result, Interplanetary Voyage stories are strongly associated with science fiction novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and with pulp magazines published during that era. Nevertheless, some modern writers still play this trope straight, and sometimes more realistically - works on the harder side of the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness might depict a crewed mission to a planet like Mars or Jupiter as a long and arduous journey, dealing with challenges such as life support or cosmic radiation.

''To put it another way'', an Interplanetary Voyage is a specific type of science-fiction story that takes the phrase "getting there is half the fun" very literally. In most cases these stories focus just as much, if not more, on the actual process of traveling in space as they do on the destination itself. Nowadays, this is largely a DeadHorseTrope outside of parodies or GenreThrowback works--the fact that space travel actually exists now allows writers to spend less time establishing it and more time building alien worlds. As a result, Interplanetary Voyage stories are strongly associated with science fiction novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and with pulp magazines published during that era. Nevertheless, some modern writers still play this trope straight, and sometimes more realistically - works on the harder side of the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness might depict a crewed mission to a planet like Mars or Jupiter as a long and arduous journey, dealing with life support systems or cosmic radiation.