The ten best fictional astronauts

Tom Lamont, a journalist for the Observer, tagged his ten best fictional astronauts. One of the space travelers best known from the printed page:Barbicane, Nicholl and Ardan
Around the Moon (1870)

A “projectile car” in the shape of a bullet conveys a trio of explorers (brainy Barbicane, brawny Nicholl and ludicrous Ardan) on their orbit around the moon in Jules Verne’s novella. Surely no