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Illustrations in From the Earth to the Moon followed by Around the Moon (De la Terre à la Lune suivi de Autour de la Lune)
Not on view
Verne’s novel From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and its sequel Around the Moon (1870) established a new genre of space fiction rooted in technical and scientific fact. In the novels, a spaceship called the Columbiad is launched from a giant cannon in Florida, orbits the moon, and splashes down in the Pacific Ocean. The uncanny similarities between Verne’s fictional itinerary and those of the Apollo missions have been noted by many, including the American astronauts who named Apollo 11’s command module Columbia, after Verne’s spaceship.
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