From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne - Books - Alan Rodgers Books - 9781598185553 - September 1, 2006
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Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon

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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.

136 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released September 1, 2006
ISBN13 9781598185553
Publishers Alan Rodgers Books
Pages 136
Dimensions 159 × 236 × 16 mm   ·   340 g
Language English  

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