Space precludes a full listing here of every real - world marvel lifted straight from a work of
futuristic fiction, but suffice it to say that an artificial Earth - orbiting
satellite was depicted in the sci - fi short story «Brick Moon» by Edward Everett Hale in 1869.
Prolific but under - recognized, Kiki Kogelnik drew inspiration for her brightly colored canvases and sculpture from the
space travel, astronauts,
satellites, military technologies, and
futuristic landscapes of postwar science fiction.