Short answers, pulled from the story.
Lucian of Samosata's dialogue Icaromenippus described Menippus attaching bird wings to his arms and flying toward the Moon. This journey appeared in Lucian of Samosata's work from the early second century.
Nicolaus Copernicus published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543. The book proposed that planets revolve around the Sun instead of the Earth.
Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli announced linear structures called canali on Mars during its opposition in 1877. Percival Lowell later popularized the notion that these vast engineering projects were built by an advanced Martian civilization between 1895 and 1908.
Hugo Gernsback launched Amazing Stories magazine in 1926 to begin the pulp era of science fiction. Two-thirds of stories in issues like Wonder Stories Quarterly from Spring 1931 onward were interplanetary tales according to bibliographer E. F. Bleiler.
The success of Apollo 11 in 1969 marked the end for stories about fictional first Moon landings. Advances in planetary science rendered previous notions of Solar System conditions obsolete during the Space Age.