A rendering of the Quicklaunch submerged launch cannon system for shooting cargo into space.
SAN DIEGO, CA – Jules, you may have been right after all: That’s Jules as in Jules Verne, the fabled 19th century French science fiction writer who in his 1865 book, “From the Earth to the Moon” described a giant gun built in Florida that launched three men to our satellite (In the international hydrogen energy community, Verne is famous, of course, as the first person to describe the use of hydrogen as fuel in his 1874 novel ... Log in to view full article.