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.
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