History Main / InterplanetaryVoyage

* The ''Kerbal Space Program'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheNextFrontier'' may involve interstellar travel, but it's definitely not the [[CasualInterstellatTravel casual or fast]] sort. Travel times just between planets vary from a couple of weeks to several months, and the current state of the art in FasterThanLightTravel gets about one light-year a ''month''.

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

* The {{Planetary}} story "The Gun Club" features a horror-tinged {{Deconstruction}} of Verne's classic tale, ''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon.''

* The second story arc of ''DeCapeEtDeCrocs'' takes place on the moon and pays tribute to Cyran de bergerac.

* ''{{Roverandom}}'' by Tolkien, about a humorous trip to the moon taken by his 4-year-old son Michael's lost toy dog.

* ''OrlandoFurioso'', loosely based on the era of Charlemagne, has the knight Astolfo fly to the Moon on a hippogriff.

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* The {{Planetary}} story "The Gun Club" features a horror-tinged {{Deconstruction}} of Verne's classic tale, ''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon.''
* The second story arc of ''DeCapeEtDeCrocs'' takes place on the moon and pays tribute to Cyran de bergerac.
* ''ComicStrip/DanDare'' in ''The Eagle'' comic is perhaps ''the'' example of trying hard to be scientifically accurate space travel (for the 1950s, at least), with (almost all) the stories being limited to travel around a then-realistic version of the solar system using then-realistic spacecraft etc.
* ''{{Franchise/Tintin}}'' featured one such voyage in the album ''Destination Moon''. The story is continued in the next one, ''Explorers on the Moon''.
* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story (and its AnimatedAdaptation) "The Astro Smurf" have its title character attempt this with the creation of his smurfship, although his attempt ended up failing. Papa Smurf and all his little Smurfs secretly lead Astro into a FauxtasticVoyage by transporting his ship inside an inactive volcano and turning themselves into the alien cavepeople called Swoofs.

* The second story arc of ''DeCapeEtDeCros'' takes place on the moon and pays tribute to Cyran de bergerac.

[[AC:{{Comics}}]]
* The {{Planetary}} story "The Gun Club" features a horror-tinged {{Deconstruction}} of Verne's classic tale, ''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon.''
* ''ComicStrip/DanDare'' in ''The Eagle'' comic is perhaps ''the'' example of trying hard to be scientifically accurate space travel (for the 1950s, at least), with (almost all) the stories being limited to travel around a then-realistic version of the solar system using then-realistic spacecraft etc.
* ''{{Franchise/Tintin}}'' featured one such voyage in the album ''Destination Moon''. The story is continued in the next one, ''Explorers on the Moon''.
* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story (and its AnimatedAdaptation) "The Astro Smurf" have its title character attempt this with the creation of his smurfship, although his attempt ended up failing. Papa Smurf and all his little Smurfs secretly lead Astro into a FauxtasticVoyage by transporting his ship inside an inactive volcano and turning themselves into the alien cavepeople called Swoofs.

* A countless number of B-movies, such as ''Rocketship to Venus'', ''Film/RocketshipXM'', ''DestinationMoon'' and ''ProjectMoonbase''.
* ''MissionToMars'' and ''Film/RedPlanet'', newer version of this trope.

* Perhaps the best contemporary example would be ''Film/EuropaReport'': hard sci-fi horror, presented in {{Apocalyptic Log}} form, yet still somehow manages to convey the same sense of wonder that is intrinsic of this trope.

* A countless number of B-movies, such as ''Rocketship to Venus'', ''{{Rocketship X-M}}'', ''DestinationMoon'' and ''ProjectMoonbase''.

* ''{{Roverandom}}'' by Tolkien, about a humorous trip to the moon taken by his son 4-year old Michael's lost toy dog.

* C.S. Lewis' ''SpaceTrilogy''.

At the beginning of the Science Fiction genre, space travel was a new and novel trope. It wasn't about the destination - the [[BoldExplorer journey alone was interesting enough]]. There was no CasualInterplanetaryTravel (let alone ''[[CasualInterstellarTravel interstellar]]''). We didn't have your fancy [[FasterThanLightTravel Hyper Drive]] or [[PortalNetwork wormhole networks]] or your [[SubspaceAnsible sub-ether anagrammed-tribadist Teslafied radio transmittion contraptions]], and we had to walk sixteen miles back and forth through the snow to the launch site. We were lucky if we had a pith helmet! Our science was silly, but it tried to be [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness hard]] ...[[ScienceMarchesOn for its time]] (except for [[HGWells Cavorite]]. That's just [[HandWave magic]]).

* ''Film/ATripToTheMoon'', the 1902 film by Georges Méliès.

* ''DanDare'' in ''The Eagle'' comic is perhaps ''the'' example of trying hard to be scientifically accurate space travel (for the 1950s, at least), with (almost all) the stories being limited to travel around a then-realistic version of the solar system using then-realistic spacecraft etc.

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

* ''Pinball/{{Pinbot}}'' requires the player to advance across the Solar System, from Pluto to the Sun.

* The UrExample is Lucian's ''True Story'', the first work of western fiction about a voyage to the moon.
* ''Orlando Furioso'', loosely based on the era of Charlemagne, has the knight Astolfo fly to the Moon on a hippogriff.

* ''A Trip to the Moon'', the 1902 film by Georges Méliès.

* ''Roverandom ''by Tolkien, about a humorous trip to the moon taken by his son 4-year old Michael's lost toy dog.

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

* ''Dan Dare'' in ''The Eagle'' comic is perhaps ''the'' example of trying hard to be scientifically accurate space travel (for the 1950s, at least), with (almost all) the stories being limited to travel around a then-realistic version of the solar system using then-realistic spacecraft etc.

* ''The Man in the Moone'' by Francis Godwin, (1638) in which a Spaniard take a geese-powered boattrip to the Moon.

* The {{Planetary}} story "The Gun Club" features a NightmareFuel-tinged {{Deconstruction}} of Verne's classic tale, ''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon.''

* ''VideoGame/Orbiter''