The first part of the book instructs us in a didactic way the different technical parameters of the project, selection of the projectile, the gun and the explosive, informing us the same knowledge of the last state in the areas of ballistic , steel and chemistry. The place where the gun is to be built also the subject of heated debate, Texas or Florida? This will ultimately Florida, providing further proof of the visionary spirit of Jules Verne. Nasa she will not be implementing a century later, his base at Cape Canaveral launch (Florida) and its control center in Houston (Texas)?
All these technical details are interesting but it must be a bit boring and recognize it until the arrival of the French Michel Ardan fantastic to see the story dramatically revived by adding a touch of poetry whose meaning will not escape, a few decades later, Georges Méliès when making his animated film "trip to the Moon." The description of Michel Ardan by Jules Verne remains one of the highlights of the book and a great moment of literature, demonstrating once again a real talent as a writer, even though we may regret a little immature and infantile character again of his characters, in turn overly enthusiastic, impulsive and angry, in proportions that harm does it serve the smooth running of the story ...
"From the Earth to the Moon" undoubtedly deserves its subtitle "special trips", a privilege that will be granted in a more questionable in many subsequent novels of the writer. This is probably, in fact, that among all the books of Jules Verne who was bearer of the craziest project, the less feasible. A project to be taken over and executed yet, first fiction by Tintin aboard a curious Nazi rocket repainted in the colors of AS Monaco; before being finalized for good by the mission aboard Apollo Saturn V rocket ...
An improbable dream come true ....
