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''From the Earth to the Moon'' (French: ''De la Terre à la Lune'') is a novel written by [[Jules Verne]] about making a travel [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|from the earth to the moon]].▼
| title = From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes
| original title = De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes
| image = Dalla Terra alla Luna - 146.jpg
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| author = Jules Verne
| central theme = Exploring where no man has gone before.
| elevator pitch = Let's shoot somebody into space - literally - because we can.
| genre = Science fiction
| publication date = 1865
| source page exists = yes
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▲'''''From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes''''' (French: ''De la Terre à la Lune, trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes'') is a novel written by [[Jules Verne]] about making a travel [[Exactly What It Says
Some time after the [[American Civil War]], members of a certain social club in Baltimore, called The Gun Club (because it consists largely of [[Justified Trope|Civil War artillery officers and various defense industrialists]]) starts wondering what can they do in these times of peace — during the war they entertained themselves building guns that kept going bigger and bigger, but that's an expensive hobby in a peacetime.
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Five years later, Verne wrote a follow up, ''Around the Moon'' (French: ''Autour de la Lune''), about the situations that Ardan and his two companions on the projectile, Barbicane and Nicholl, have to deal with while on their way to the moon and back. As a curious fact, the book finished in his serialized form in 1869; exactly a hundred years later, man would reach the moon.
There was also a third novel, ''The Purchase of the North Pole'' (French: ''Sans dessus dessous''). This one doesn’t deal with the moon at all and only has the characters in common; the plot is about the Gun Club’s attempt to destabilize the Earth’s orbit in order to exploit the wealth of the North Pole, [[What the Hell, Hero?|completely disregarding the well-being of the rest of the inhabitants of the Earth]]. That's largely because it was written in the Verne's later, [[Humans Are
''From the Earth to the Moon'' was loosely adapted into the [[Georges Melies]] [[Silent Films|silent film]] ''[[A Trip to
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* [[Artistic License Physics]]: The astronauts get to the moon by being shot out of a 900 foot long cannon. In order to reach sufficient velocity to reach the Moon while traveling the length of the cannon, the ship would have to accelerate at 22,000 gravities, which would squash the astronauts inside it flat no matter what precautions were taken.
* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: Michael Ardan is asked whether it is not foolish, since there is little if no air on the Moon? "Then I will only breathe on special occasions!" he quips.
* [[
* [[Determinator]]: The American people. More precisely, the members of the Gun Club.
* [[Duel to
* [[Eagle Land]]: The United States are portrayed as a bunch of [[Trigger Happy]], hard-working [[Determinator
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Gun Nut]]: The Gun Club.
* [[Hook Hand]]: J. T. Maston, due to him being a civil war veteran.
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* [[Interplanetary Voyage]]
* [[Large Ham]]: Michel Ardan and J. T. Maston.
* [[Jerk
* [[National Anthem]]: "Yankee Doodle" serves as one here, since at the time, the United States didn't have an official national anthem.
* [[Omnibus]]: Nowadays, the first two books are issued as one.
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