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From the Earth to the Moon

byJules Verne

Who is this book for? Readers interested in classic science fiction and adventure stories.

Topics Moon landingLunar travelJules verneProjectileSpace explorationScience fictionAdventureTechnologyImaginationAstronautsExplorationTechnology and Humanity
MoodWhimsical, Hopeful
Verne's 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as you'd expect from Verne) great fun, even if bits of it now seem, in retrospect, a little strange. Our rocket ship gets shot out of a cannon? To the moon? Goodness! But in other ways it's full of eerie bits of business that turned out to be very near reality: he had the cost, when you adjust for inflation, almost exactly right. There are other similarities, too. Verne's cannon was named the "Columbiad"; the Apollo 11 command module was named "Columbia." Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Verne's did; and both blasted off from the American state of Florida. Even the return to earth happened in more-or-less the same place. Coincidence -- or "fact!?" We say you'll have to read this story yourself to judge.

Language

en

Published on

01/10/2006

Pages

136

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781598184549

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