num_pages: 136
description: 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.
language: English
title: From the Earth to the Moon
titlecomplete: From the Earth to the Moon
genres: French Literature, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Adventure, Fiction, 19th Century, France
ratings_count: 31448
places: Florida, The Moon
series: Baltimore Gun Club 
publisher: Aegypan