Illustration from Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon
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Illustration of a Moon launch from Jules's Verne's novel From the Earth to the Moon. A cannon would in fact have killed the voyagers.
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Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon featured a gigantic cannon in Florida that fired a capsule around the Moon. While this made for a good story, the visionaries knew the huge acceleration would have crushed Verne’s travelers.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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SI A-4084-B
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1865
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Illustration
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