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This is brilliant, where this from?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon
Very first sci-fi film ever made after a story by Jules Verne. They use a giant cannon to launch someone into lunar orbit and back. Pure fiction but touched upon basics of actual science, and was definitely the inspiration for actual space exploration.
Would it theoretically be possible to send payload this way to the moon? EDIT: amazing answers, thank you
The company Spin Launch is doing someone not that dissimilar to this, except they're not using explosives to shoot it up, but are accelerating it in a circle until it gets the right speed