[Suggestion] Rockets made after sci-fi books

[roarke]

"From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon

Spoiler ahead :

"In Jules Verne's novel From the Earth to the Moon, a giant columbiad space gun is constructed in Tampa, Florida after the American Civil War, with the purpose of striking the Moon. Although the cannon is originally designed to fire a hollow aluminum ball, a bullet-shaped projectile is later designed with the purpose of carrying people. It is now known that neither concept is viable using such a cannon.

This fictional columbiad is made of cast iron six feet thick, is 900 feet (274 m) long, and has a bore with a diameter of nine feet. It weighs more than 68,000 short tons (61,700 metric tons or 60,700 long tons) and is therefore cast directly in the ground, rather than being mounted on rails. The cannon is then loaded with 400,000 pounds (180,000 kg) of "pyroxyle" (gun cotton) to give the projectile sufficient velocity to leave Earth's atmosphere and reach the Moon."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbiad#In_fiction

Must be done if copyright ended after author death, accordingly to laws. Or models from a game inspired from a book is not copyrighted ?

[hab136]

So basically a mass driver. Note that mass drivers wouldn't really work from planets that have atmospheres; you'd slow down too much to reach orbit and/or explode from heat.

There were two mass driver mods:

Mass Driver

Netherdyne Mass Driver.