Tom Lamont, a journalist for the Observer, tagged his ten best fictional astronauts. One of the space travelers best known from the printed page:TintinRead about another entry on the list.
Explorers on the Moon (1954)
Beating Neil Armstrong by well over a decade, that superbly competent child-journalist, Tintin, goes walking on the moon in the 17th instalment of Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin. He travels there in a red-checked rocket (nuclear-powered), taking along a few pals, as well as his dog, Snowy. Though there are Balkan spies to thwart and tanks to be piloted around the moon’s surface, much of Tintin’s energies are spent looking after that amiable ruin, Captain Haddock, who works his way through a crate of whisky on the trip, causing trouble.
--Marshal Zeringue
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