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Flight of fancy
When “Apollo 8” was exciting us as it made it’s fantastic voyage through space to visit the moon, it’s achievements could be compared to the novel “From the Earth to the Moon” written by the great fantasy author Jules Verne, who described a moon landing in 1865.

When Jules Verne wrote his fictional tale, the aeroplane had yet to be invented!

 

 

  Apollo Eight Verne
Launch date December 22 December 11
Crew Three Men Three Men
Ship 12ft long 12ft long
Top Speed 24.200mph 25,000mph
Orbit 70 miles from the moon 25 miles from moon