From the Earth to the Moon Jules Verne,
Publisher: Aegypan
ISBN: 1598185551
Edition: Hardcover; 2006-09-01
Summary:
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.
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