Man’s wish to leave the Earth and reach other stars was first written about in the second century AD, when a Greek, Lucian of Samos, wrote two stories about men who went to the Moon; one used a pair of (11) made by himself while the other was carried there by a (12) . The Moon was the very place man wanted to reach in early stories as it is the nearest star to the Earth and has (13) to be seen which led to Man’s imaginations about life there.
But after Lucian, for the next 1 400 years no other writings about traveling to the Moon have existed. Man seemed (14) in his belief that the Earth was the most important star and therefore it was not necessary to leave it. This belief was made stronger by the Christian Church and in 1543 Copernicus was thrown into prison because he published his revolutionary theory that the Sun was much bigger and the Earth, Moon and other stars (15) round it. Although this theory was not accepted, then it started men thinking about the stars again.