Though it was written over 100 years prior to the Apollo 11 mission, Verne's novel From the earth to the Moon actually serves as a pretty damn accurate novelization of that mission, Down to the most frightening details. He was slightly off on cost and weight of the rocket (But only slightly genuine stats were 26,275 euros and $14.4 billion), And in the prevailing departure from reality, Verne's jet pilots were shot out of a huge gun. But get this: Verne's space cannon was called Columbiad, And the Apollo 11 command it to module was named Columbia,

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