from the earth to the moon

     

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune, 1865) is a humorous science fantasy novel by Jules Verne an is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil War gun club who build an enormous sky-facing columbiad and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to a Moon landing.

Trivia about from the earth to the moon

  • Jules Verne's book "Around the Moon" was the sequel to this 1865 best seller
  • Tom Hanks was the executive producer of this 1998 HBO miniseries about the Apollo space program
  • Apollo 15's David Scott served as an adviser on this appropriate HBO series
  • The French title of this 1865 Jules Verne classic is "De la Terre a la Lune"
  • Sally Field was one of the directors of this 12-part space series on HBO
  • This 1865 novel is about some U.S. Civil War vets who decide to create a cannon to shoot a "space-bullet" from Florida

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