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From the Earth to the Moon Jules Verne
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From the Earth to the Moon
Jules Verne
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.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 29, 2020 |
| ISBN13 | 9798657760965 |
| Pages | 434 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 22 mm · 576 g |
| Language | English |