Illustration at The Brick Moon in the 1869 episode
The Brick Moon is a short story written by Edward Everett Hale, published in The Atlantic Monthly, starting in 1869. It is a speculative fiction that was first described as an artificial satellite. Content
The Brick Moon is written as a diary. It is about building and launching a space station. The space station is built of bricks, and has a diameter of 200 feet. It was intended as a navigation aid at sea, but it was accidentally launched with people aboard. This was the first fictional description of a space station. Also see
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