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- Author: Jules Verne
- Publisher: Aegypan
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 136
- ISBN-10: 1598185551
- ISBN-13: 9781598185553
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, Fiction, Fantasy & Magic (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
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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.
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- Author: Jules Verne
- Publisher: Aegypan
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 136
- ISBN-10: 1598185551
- ISBN-13: 9781598185553
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
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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