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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Título : From the Earth to the Moon
EAN : 9782322253302
Editorial : Books on Demand
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: 17/10/20
Formato : ePub
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