Possibly the best known representation of a space gun is Jules Verne's novel, From the Earth to the Moon (made into the silent movie, Le Voyage dans la Lune), in which spaceman fly to the moon aboard the ship launched from either the cannon. Isaac Newton once used for instance the cannon placed on top of the mountain and fired with the correct velocity when a demonstration of his law of universal gravity, and a construct wwhen featured within films as late as 1967 in films like Rocket to the Moon.

On the practical side, the virtually all large & successful attempt to produce a space gun was ballistics & cannon genius Gerald Bull's Project Babylon. When you took Design Babylon, Bull utilized his case from either Project HARP to build a massive cannon for Saddam Hussein of Iraq. This gun, experienced it been completed, would own been a number one avowedly space gun capable of launching objects into orbit. All the same, it appears that Israeli Mossad agents assassinated him to prevent Iraq from either obtaining such an extended few feet away weapon which may target Israel inside the new war.

Since Bull's demise, couple keep around seriously attempted to build the space gun. Possibly virtually all promisingly, a Me Ballistic Missile Defense programme sponsored the Super High Altitude Research Project in the 1980s. Developed at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, it is the Light Gas Gun and has been used to trial fire object at Mach 9. One of a lead developers John Hunter has since founded a Jules Verne Launcher Company in 1996, though has as yet been unable to call for funding for the multi-billion dollar plan.