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The Jules Verne gun: an ambitious plan to change the way we launch satellites will fulfill the science-fiction writer's dream.

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From: Popular Mechanics
Date: 19961201
Author:Gourley, Scott R.

Jules Verne Launcher Pres John Hunter plans to use gas-powered devices to launch satellites into orbit. He helped develop the inexpensive and effective launchers, with a firing velocity of 5 miles per second, through his work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

* In his 1865 novel From The Earth To The Moon, author Jules Verne describes a post-Civil War society in which the convened members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club lament the sudden lack of artillery activities. Their boredom is soon broken by a speech from the club's president, who outlines a bold plan to use a ...

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