From Stevens Institute of Technology's 1932 yearbook.

"Rockets on the way to Saturn."  From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.

"My awakening on another planet."  From Mystic Magazine, 1954.  

"Is cosmic travel possible?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.

Can't wait!  "Trips to the moon in 1954!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1945.

Traveling through space in a giant slipper with a witchy cat, as one does.  From Witch's Cat by Ruth Chew.

Even if you prefer taking a train to flying, you can still get to the moon.  "A projectile train to the moon."  From The Century, 1873.

"We're ready to go to Mars; book now for sometime in 2014."  From the National Post, 1999.

"The shot into infinity."  From Science Wonder Quarterly, 1929.

"The moonlit earth whirling around in inkiness."  From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.

Even adjusting for inflation, this is way more economical space travel than the elon-gated musk-rats offer in this strange modern time.  From Screenland Plus TV-Land, 1953.

This is a question we, too, ask every night - "Who says the stars are too many light-years away to reach?"  From Startling Stories, 1951.

From Astounding Science Fiction, 1938.

"Far and fast, even for a bird man."  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.

"On they flew toward the big round moon catching the light from the distant blazing sun."  From Little Star Gazers by Julia Augusta Schwartz, 1917.

My modest collection of vintage airplanes is taking off.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.

From A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor, 1894.