From the Earth to the Moon

Jules Verne wrote of space travel before the first rocket was launched. He spoke of under water adventures before the first submarine was built. He was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. What one man can imagine, another will someday be able to achieve. Is a quote from an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica that sums up Verne so well. Written almost a century ago, this fantasy deals with a moon shot fired by an enormous gun from a hill in Florida. The three adventurers traveling in the capsule find themselves off course, and seem doomed to orbit the moon as a satellite forever.