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Vernes 1865 tale of a trip to the moon is (as youd 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 its 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. Vernes cannon was named the Columbiad the Apollo 11 command module was named Columbia. Apollo 11 had a three-person crew, just as Vernes 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 youll have to read this story yourself to judge.