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Bien avant l’ère spatiale, des auteurs avaient pensé à survoler la Terre de haut. Lucien de Samosate, Johann Kepler, Francis Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac avaient décrit des voyages cosmiques imaginaires d’où l’on observait la Terre avant qu’Edgar Allan Poe, Herbert George Wells, Jules Verne, Konstantin Edouardovitch Tsiolkovski, Alexis Tolstoï ou Hermann Oberth ne puissent imaginer l’observation spatiale de notre planète.

Geography of Imaginary Cosmic TravelsLong before the space age, some authors had thought about flying over the earth. Lucien Samosate, Johann Kepler, Francis Godwin, Cyrano de Bergerac had described imaginary cosmic travels from which men could observe the earth, before Edgar Allan Poe, Herbert George Wells, Jules Verne, Konstantin Edouardovitch Tsiolkovski, Alexis Tolstoï or Hermann Oberth were able to imagine space observation of our planet.