From London to Mercury and back: put the voyage in order and tag the pivotal choices

🔭 What was the first celestial body from which a strange light was observed, sparking the narrator's interest in space travel?

🚀 Who was the inventor of the flying machine demonstrated with a bell-jar, and what was the initial purpose of the expedition that the narrator joined?

🤯 During the perilous journey, who proposed using rifle recoil for propulsion, who fired at the flying monster on Mercury, and who ultimately devised the method to revive the jammed engines?