Sunday marks the 170th anniversary of the birth of Jules Verne [
http://www.math.tec…] (born in Nantes, France on the 8th of February, 1828). Inspired by a lifelong fascination [
http://www.math.tec…] with machines, Verne wrote visionary works [
http://www.math.tec…] about "Extraordinary Voyages" [
http://www.interlog…] including such terrestrial travels as Around the World in 80 Days [
http://www.fourmila…], Journey to the Centre of the Earth [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…], and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea [ gopher://gopher.vt.e du:10010/02/153/3 ]. In 1865 he published the story of three adventurers who undertook a journey From the Earth to the Moon [
http://www.teachers…]. Verne's characters rode a "projectile-vehicle" [
http://www.nasm.edu…] fired from a huge cannon constructed in Florida. Does that sound familiar? A century later, the Saturn V rocket [
http://www.calweb.c…] and NASA's Apollo program [
http://www.hq.nasa.…] finally turned this work of fiction into fact, propelling adventuresome trios [
http://www.hq.nasa.…] on what was perhaps Verne's most extraordinary voyage. This stirring floodlit view [
http://images.jsc.n…] shows the Apollo 9 space-vehicle atop its Saturn V. Launched from a spaceport in Florida [
http://www.ksc.nasa…] in 1969, the Apollo 9 crew were the first to test all lunar landing hardware in space .
Explanation
Sunday marks the 170th anniversary of the birth of Jules Verne [
http://www.math.tec…] (born in Nantes, France on the 8th of February, 1828). Inspired by a lifelong fascination [
http://www.math.tec…] with machines, Verne wrote visionary works [
http://www.math.tec…] about "Extraordinary Voyages" [
http://www.interlog…] including such terrestrial travels as Around the World in 80 Days [
http://www.fourmila…], Journey to the Centre of the Earth [
http://antwrp.gsfc.…], and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea [ gopher://gopher.vt.e du:10010/02/153/3 ]. In 1865 he published the story of three adventurers who undertook a journey From the Earth to the Moon [
http://www.teachers…]. Verne's characters rode a "projectile-vehicle" [
http://www.nasm.edu…] fired from a huge cannon constructed in Florida. Does that sound familiar? A century later, the Saturn V rocket [
http://www.calweb.c…] and NASA's Apollo program [
http://www.hq.nasa.…] finally turned this work of fiction into fact, propelling adventuresome trios [
http://www.hq.nasa.…] on what was perhaps Verne's most extraordinary voyage. This stirring floodlit view [
http://images.jsc.n…] shows the Apollo 9 space-vehicle atop its Saturn V. Launched from a spaceport in Florida [
http://www.ksc.nasa…] in 1969, the Apollo 9 crew were the first to test all lunar landing hardware in space .
Explanation
