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From the Earth to the Moon

Name: From the Earth to the Moon
Author: Jules Verne

Jules Verne1865

Lunapunk

Space travel
Yesterday's tomorrow
Engines and machines

A club of idle gunmakers decides to fire a giant shell at the Moon. Adjacent rather than core, pure engineering optimism, but it fixed the Moon as a destination in the modern imagination.

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