5/18/2023 0 Comments From the earth to the moon verne* that Texas would compete for the launch site and lose. * that the trip to the Moon would come on the heels of advances in the understanding of projectiles following a war. * the order of magnitude of the cost: Verne said the program launched with an initial investment of USD$5.5M, which, 100 years later, would have been approximately $218M (using the annual inflation between 19 and then again between 19 to approximate the same length of time which passed between Verne's prediction and the Apollo 11 mission). The Apollo 11 Mission cost 355 Million dollars in 1969, 104 years after Verne's estimate during the American Civil War. * the number of astronauts that would make the trip (3) * the length of the trip there (between 3 and 4 days) * the latitude from which it would launch to an astounding precision of 20 miles, * the state from which the expedition would launch, * the nation which would send Man to the Moon many decades before it became a dominant world power Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon is remarkable in its accurate predictions of what would happen 104 years later.
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