Jules Verne

1828 – 1905 · France secular · writer, visionary

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French novelist who predicted submarines, space travel, lunar missions, and electric lighting in works like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon.

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Moon Flight from Florida

1865 AD — Paris

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In 'From the Earth to the Moon,' he described launching a projectile with a human crew from Florida toward the Moon, with three crew members, returning by splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.

Reality: The Apollo program launched three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1969. Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific.

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