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| - From the Earth to the Moon was a book by Jules Verne. Indiana Jones had read the work as a child which fostered in him an interest in rockets. He told Robert Goddard as much while working for the professor in 1919.
- From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a novel written by Jules Verne about making a travel from the earth to the moon. Some time after the American Civil War, members of a certain social club in Baltimore, called The Gun Club (because it consists largely of Civil War artillery officers and various defense industrialists) starts wondering what can they do in these times of peace — during the war they entertained themselves building guns that kept going bigger and bigger, but that's an expensive hobby in a peacetime.
- From the Earth to the Moon (in French: De la Terre à la Lune) was a science fiction novel written by Jules Verne in 1865. The novel described space exploration for the first time. It was later combined with the 1870 sequel, Around the Moon, to create A Trip to the Moon and Around It.
- Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a science fiction novel about the first people to visit the moon. It was published in 1865, very nearly 100 years before the first real human trip to the moon in 1969.
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| - From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a novel written by Jules Verne about making a travel from the earth to the moon. Some time after the American Civil War, members of a certain social club in Baltimore, called The Gun Club (because it consists largely of Civil War artillery officers and various defense industrialists) starts wondering what can they do in these times of peace — during the war they entertained themselves building guns that kept going bigger and bigger, but that's an expensive hobby in a peacetime. The club members propose various wacky schemes up to starting a new war, until one of them suggest doing something that sounds impossible: shooting a giant bullet towards the moon, for no reason other than to show they can do it. Things only get more interesting when an exentric Frenchman, Michel Ardan, asks them to shoot a hollow projectile where he can travel to the moon. The book is known for showing off Verne’s investigation; even though Science Marches On and some things he stipulated are now known to be incorrect, he still guessed a lot of facts right. It’s even more important if you consider that, when the book was written, there was almost nothing to investigate, since nobody knew anything about space travel or the characteristics of the moon. Five years later, Verne wrote a follow up, Around the Moon (French: Autour de la Lune), about the situations that Ardan and his two companions on the projectile, Barbicane and Nicholl, have to deal with while on their way to the moon and back. As a curious fact, the book finished in his serialized form in 1869; exactly a hundred years later, man would reach the moon. There was also a third novel, The Purchase of the North Pole (French: Sans dessus dessous). This one doesn’t deal with the moon at all and only has the characters in common; the plot is about the Gun Club’s attempt to destabilize the Earth’s orbit in order to exploit the wealth of the North Pole, completely disregarding the well-being of the rest of the inhabitants of the Earth. That's largely because it was written in the Verne's later, more misanthropic period, and is largely a satire at the rampant commercialization of the world. From the Earth to the Moon was loosely adapted into the Georges Melies silent film A Trip to the Moon (1903), which is regarded today as a milestone in the development of Early Films.
- Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a science fiction novel about the first people to visit the moon. It was published in 1865, very nearly 100 years before the first real human trip to the moon in 1969. Verne's fictional account bears an uncanny resemblance to the Apollo 11 mission. Some of the resemblance, such as "Verne's cannon was named the Columbiad; the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia." could be due to the reading habits of the scientists in the Apollo program. Other aspects, such as the size of the module and number of astronauts, were determined by other constraints.
- From the Earth to the Moon (in French: De la Terre à la Lune) was a science fiction novel written by Jules Verne in 1865. The novel described space exploration for the first time. It was later combined with the 1870 sequel, Around the Moon, to create A Trip to the Moon and Around It. Emmett Brown, while looking at stars with Clara Clayton through her telescope, told her of a day in 1969 when fantastic machines that would one day propel humans into outer space and to the moon. As he attempted to describe it in 19th century terms, he was surprised when Clara completed his sentence. She recognized his words as a reference to the novel. They then realized that they both loved Jules Verne, and Doc then described his love for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
- From the Earth to the Moon was a book by Jules Verne. Indiana Jones had read the work as a child which fostered in him an interest in rockets. He told Robert Goddard as much while working for the professor in 1919.
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