Who had the first idea to visit the moon?

Question

Start thinking.

I'm sure that someone told some other person, about wanting to go to the moon. His friend, boss probally said "your out of your mind. Are you serious?"

I'm wanting to see who remembers that far back. I'm thinking it was somewhere around the 60's?

Answer 1

The French. They like cheese.

Answer 2

There is no telling who had the 1st idea to visit the moon.   There has been a movie produced during the time before "talkies".  So, perhaps, if was an author, who had the 1st idea.  

Rocket science was born during World War II.  But, I'm sure, was thought about way before that.

The first men to walk on the moon were Americans.  The Russians, however, did put the first man in space!  

So, if you know who had the 1st idea, well, you're one up on everyone.

Answer 3

My guess is the first person to recognize the moon as being a "planet." That would be a few hundred years ago.

Answer 4

Johannes Kepler wrote about it in his lifetime, so people have been thinking about what the Moon is and wanting to go there for centuries.  However, if you mean seriously considering it as in enginerring the technology required to do it, I would venture it was people like Goddard and Von Braun around the beginning of the 20th century.

Answer 5

the idea is much older. the first "modern" story on the subject was published by jules verne in 1865 - complete with a launch from florida and splashdown at sea.

more fanciful descriptions go a lot further back than that - micromégas (voltaire, 1752) has beings from saturn and sirius visiting earth.

Answer 6

Humans first went into space in the 60s.  We spent a long time before that with ideas of visiting the moon.  There are silent movies about journeys to the moon.  A movie being silent means it predates the 30s.  Rocket science was born in the late 19th century.

I am sure we don't know the name, if the person had one, of the first to have the idea.  The moon has always been there for people to wonder about.

Answer 7

On April 28, 1961, Vice President Lyndon Johnson issued a reported to President Kennedy stating that the United States could concievably land a man on the moon "by 1966 or 1967". Kennedy issued his challenge before a joint session of Congress a month later.  The dream that men had dreamed for millions of years was finally a reachable goal.

Answer 8

actually, if you think about it, Jules Verne was one of the the first, since he wrote the story, Journey to the Moon, or somesuch title, many years ago, but, yes, I'm pretty sure, when the moon was first seen, somebody thought, gee, I'd like to go there..

Answer 9

The cow.

And she made it first.