When he suggested that a rocket could travel fast enough to leave the Earth and reach the Moon, the newspapers made fun of him.
His rocket then will travel to Cloud 9 on Planet Rennie.
The ship was then a quarter of the way to the meeting place and the rocket had farther to travel.
The rocket traveled unusually far into Israel because it was fired from close to the northern boundary, Israeli officials said.
You didn't have to worry about trajectory; the rocket traveled in a straight line for all practical purposes.
As he watched, stunned, the rocket traveled in a graceful flat arc.
The rocket traveled 24 kilometers, exceeding the 20 km range of a standard 122 mm Katyusha.
A few other rockets have traveled that far, but it was still unusual, the Israeli military and police said.
A rocket carrying about one pound of powder could travel almost 1,000 yards.
Medium-range rockets travel from 600 to 3,000 miles.