From the Earth to the Moon

<p>In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon Jules Verne turned the ancient fantasy of space flight into a believable technological possibility. Directly inspired by Verne's story enthusiasts worked successfully at overcoming the practical difficulties and within a century human beings did indeed fly to the Moon. Curiously however Verne is unlikely to have thought it possible that a manned projectile could actually be fired out of a giant cannon rising higher than the Moon swinging around it and then landing safely back on Earth. </p><p>Read the book and you too will be fooled into accepting the realistic possibility in Verne's time of the dream of flying to the Moon.</p>