From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne - Libros - Alan Rodgers Books - 9781598185553 - 1 de septiembre de 2006
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From the Earth to the Moon

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

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 1 de septiembre de 2006
ISBN13 9781598185553
Editores Alan Rodgers Books
Páginas 136
Dimensiones 159 × 236 × 16 mm   ·   340 g
Lengua Inglés  

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