earliest films regarding space exploration started to appear.
However, while Tsiolkovsky and Goddard’s contributions laid the groundwork for contemporary rocket science and space travel, cinema was not far behind, the concept of connecting the two dates back to a 1657 novel. Cyrano de Bergerac, who is mostly remembered today as the inspiration and namesake of an 1897 theatrical work, was in fact the first to establish a link between rockets and their possible application in space exploration.